[[It is water vapor in the atmosphere that contributes the majority of greenhouse gas warming]]
So I’ll ask this- how can even 0.04% of the atmosphere cause global warming? 0.04% isn’t nearly enough to trap anywhere near enough heat to warm the globe- at best- it can only very minorly cause localized warming-
[[CO2 plays a major role because even though the amount of atmospheric CO2 is tiny, measured in parts per million, it has a dramatic effect on how much water vapor is retained in the atmosphere.]]
No I’m sorry- it is far far too tiny- there is no correlation between the small amount of CO2 and global warming- there simply is nowhere near enough CO2- nor is there enough greenhouse gases to cause global warming- What is the % of water vapor caused by greenhouse gases? Let alone caused by CO2? We can’t just make a claim that a tiny amount of CO2 causes enough water vapor to cause global warming- almost 200% of the greenhouse gases are natural anyways- the tiny contribution of man’s CO2 and other greenhouse gases is not causing a ‘tipping point’ only 0.00136% of the greenhouse gases are ‘caused by man’
So again, it’s just crazy to suggest that such a small amount has caused a ‘tipping point’ and is ‘causing global climate change’
There is no thick blanket of ‘water vapor’ (’caused by man’s CO2 and greenhouse gases’) encompassing the world- infact almost all of the globe is free of vapor allowing the mass majority of heat to escape- only small areas- small localized areas, contain this small amount of vapor- this does not- can not- translate into a global effect-
Climate alarmists often look at atmospheric CO2 levels like a window that gets whitewashed.
In their view, a single thin whitewash will impede but not block the light coming through the window (heat radiating into space)
Another coat over that will impede even more. Adding additional coats will cause light to be blocked (reflected) completely.
It is a simplistic view, but that is how many of them view it. There is no evidence that CO2 levels function in the atmosphere in that manner.
You don’t need a thick blanket of any substance in order to warm the earth. Remember, we are talking parts per million. What keeps the earth from becoming a frozen snowball now? Green house gasses. Notably CO2 and CH4. About 715 million years ago, something, possibly due to rapid silicate weathering on the continents, caused a drop in CO2 levels and this in turn caused a plummet in the Earth’s average temp and thus was born Snowball Earth. For about 120 million years, Earth remained that way till volcanoes had pushed enough CO2 into the atmosphere to warm the Earth.