The problem with that theory of continuous positive feedback from warming is that the absorption of infrared light by both CO2 and water vapor saturates at almost 100% at a certain concentration of both molecules. After the concentrations reach those levels, the molecules don’t absorb significantly more energy and the positive feedback essentially stops. CO2 is a very ineffective greenhouse gas and if the concentration doubled that would increase the earth’s temperature by < 0.24 degrees C:
At this point, I think the main thing that keeps the Climate Alarmist industry going is organizational politics and the complete, abject breakdown of the scientific peer review process related to research on climate science. This has turned into a huge debacle in the scientific community, and of course the lack of temperature increase in original, unadjusted temperature data demonstrates clearly that the alarmist models are incorrect and they greatly overestimate any effect on temperature caused by CO2.
But unfortunately, in many organizations in academia and government, scientists who tell the truth about this subject have their research harshly and falsely reviewed by people clinging to their false, outdated theories, and those who tell the truth are often punished severely or even fired from their jobs.
[[The problem with that theory of continuous positive feedback from warming is that the absorption of infrared light by both CO2 and water vapor saturates at almost 100% at a certain concentration of both molecules. After the concentrations reach those levels, the molecules don’t absorb significantly more energy and the positive feedback essentially stops.]]
That’s what i’ve been trying to say in my own clumsy non-scientific manner- almost all of the escaping heat goes right out to space because what little CO2 and greenhouse gases there are are almost always saturated and can’t absorb anymore— and here’s an interesting note, (unless I’m misunderstanding how it works) when the CO2 molecule releases, or radiates the heat it captures outward, the molecule next to it reabsorbs it from what i understand- so essentially, once the layer is saturated- it simply passes the heat it’s already captured back and forth among the molecules- any ‘new heat’, or ‘new ir molecules’ that reach the layer, passes right on by because the layer is saturated already- and the heat finds the path of least resistance, as heat always wants to move upward-
There’s a lot to it- but the math and core samples show that the facts don’t fit the agenda