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I meant to add that the basis for the models for CO₂ involvement being used to predict runaway warming employ boundary conditions that are clearly unrealistic. The catch is that those assumed conditions are hidden - they're not obvious from examining the differential equations' solution.

And the solution is OLD. If I'm correct in recalling, the original solution was derived back in the '30's. The problem is that the result has been used (without the assumptions accompanying them for the most part) for almost 80 years and the details, though available, have largely been forgotten. It is the incorrect application of this solution, OUTSIDE the limits of the assumptions, that leads to unbounded positive feedback (runaway warming).

Here's the kicker. In the last few years a new solution has been derived for the differential equations which use realistic boundary conditions (no small mathematical feat in itself). The result? Self-limiting feedback which yields very, very small warming of less than a degree C no matter how much CO₂ you pump into the system.

Global warming is not killing us, it's the FEAR of global warming being used to force STUPID actions that has the potential to kill America.