There is one overriding, AMAZING point in this article - and I have never considered it BUT NOW it seems OBVIOUS!
= = = THE KILLER CONCEPT IS THIS!!! = = =
If CHANGES in CO2 concentration at this LOW level (in forty-nine years beginning in 1958, CO2 increased by approx 62 ppmv - 0.0062% - and is approaching a total concentration of 0.04%)...
... could have such a profound and accumulative effect (FORCING an increase in the average temperature of THE ENTIRE PLANET’S ATMOSPHERE of several degrees in just a few decades, or even a century and a half)...
THEN THIS EFFECT WOULD BE EASILY OBSERVABLE IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS!!!
It would NOT be subtle - it would be readily detectable, and a consistent PHYSICS-based explanation and mechanism would exist.
It would NOT be some mysterious effect. This is NOT quantum mechanics! This is “normal” classical physics.
AGAIN - to reprise the argument - AND PLEASE NOTE THE UNITS - CO2 has increased by about six-thousandths of one percent in fifty years. If this continues another 50 or 100 years, disaster awaits - the average temperature of the entire planet will increase 2 - 4 - 6 degrees? (pick a number)
If this CO2 effect existed AND was of this POWER, it would be readily measurable in the lab.
SO - Where is the lab data and analysis supporting this effect - not just computer models - but real-world, reality-based measurements?
Game-Set-Match on JUST this argument alone, IMHO
FREE POWER! hey, it just gets hotter and hotter in here, there must be a way we can build lots of greenhouses and capture all that energy...
I’ve seen this before.
Put simply, the earth is NOT a greenhouse, thus invalidating everything stated after that. Then you come to the fact that if CO2 is such a great insulator, why isn’t it used in construction?
Very, very interesting——MHO tends to agree wholeheartedly. You should forward this info to Sen. James Inhofe-—the biggest critic of CO2 warming, etc.
Thanks for the ping!
/bingo
It would theoretically be possible for the planet to have enough different positive feedback mechanisms that even though none of them were individually significant, the cumulative effect would be disastrous. What makes the theory implausible is that the planet is known to have gone through conditions far more extreme than anything we have now and returned to a (more or less) equilibrium state. If the planet's ecosystem were prone to thermal runaway it would already have happened at various times when it is known not to have done so. The fact that the planet is habitable suggests very strongly that its ecosystem has some very powerful negative feedback systems.