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Our Federal Governmnet will promote the myth that a trivial increase in CO2 in our atmosphere will cause a significant incease in atmospheric temperatures by establishing a new National Religion involving worship of “the-Earth-as-it-is-today”.
Citizens will be penalized if they do not make substantial “contributions” to support this new religion. “Skeptics” will be punished as heretics. “Indulgences” will be sold to insiders.
Do you suppose we should clue in the “Atheists” about this new ti ebetween church and state??
Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=329610775933844
The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds [clouds of course aren’t gas, but high level ones do act to trap heat from escaping, while low-lying cumulus clouds tend to reflect sunlight and thereby help cool the planet -etl]. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.
In simple terms the bulk of Earth’s greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth’s greenhouse effect — perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth’s total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, ‘Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,’ Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).
The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other ‘minor greenhouse gases.’ As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/