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To: palmer

CO2 is 400 parts per million
That is AKA 0.000400 of 1 unit

Take a pencil and put four dots on a 8x11 piece of paper.
That is 400 parts per million, if the paper = i million

2 ppm = 0.000002 of 1 unit

Their is not enough CO2 in the atmosphere to raise/lower/keep in heat


25 posted on 12/24/2014 3:45:53 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler
Take a pencil and put four dots on a 8x11 piece of paper. That is 400 parts per million, if the paper = i million

The 8.5 by 11 paper is flat but air is a volume. So assume a box which is 8.5 by 8.5 by 11 and fill it with air molecules at average sea level pressure, namely 4 x 10^23 molecules of mostly N2 and O2. Now add 0.04% CO2 which is about 10^20 molecules. That is enough to intercept many of the IR photons passing through that volume even with those molecules being very small and spread out. In fact all IR photons leaving the earth's surface are intercepted in about 47 meters (the mean free path). That is one of the best arguments for why adding a bit more CO2 doesn't make much difference although it obviously makes some difference as "atmospheric thickening" agent would.

29 posted on 12/24/2014 4:57:15 PM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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