how is it that I’m full of hot air? I’m asking a perfectly legit question about how it’s possible for CO2 at just 0.04% of the atmosphere is capable of causing global climate change- the 0.04% is a fact- and it only stands to reason that such a small amount can’t possibly be causing global warming unless there is some super capability that CO2 has that I am unaware of? I wasn’;t blaming you for not having answers- You made mention that CO2 is capable of radiating heat back to earth, gave some figures, and my point/question was ‘sure, it can reflect heat back, but it is an inefficient reflector of heat first of all, and second, simply showing that CO2 is capable of reflecting heat still doesn’t address the question for how such aa small amount of it can affect global temperatures like the alarmists are claiming-
I thought perhaps you knew of the mechanism such a small amout uses to somehow increase temperatures on such a small scale-
I've not personally done the math to figure out why such a small percentage of C02 causes issues. I was merely passing on the information that I know.
However, it has been shown that without an atmosphere, the average earth surface temperature would be between -18 °C (255 K) and -5 °C (268 K). However, the average temperature is 15 °C (288 K). So, clearly there is an effect due to the atmosphere.
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K51