Actually CO2 is a lousy greenhouse gas. The really strong greenhouse
gas is water vapor, (partly because there's so much of it in the
atmosphere). It's just much easier to model CO2 which has much less
complex interactions. However climate change models based on CO2
studies are so flawed as to be useless for prediction. More
interestingly NASA has been shamed by an amateur Canadian researcher
into revising it's temperature data for the last 50 years due to an
incorrect normalization procedure. Not that it gets a lot of publicity,
(enough that it should be like a nagging low level tooth ache maybe for
the Global Warming Fans), or gets much credence from the Global Warming
fanatics, in fact is discounted by some who should know better because
it doesn't fit their prejudices. Using the newly re-corrected NASA data
the 10 hottest years on record are no longer in the later half of he
20th century, but mostly in in the first half. This was known before
Former VP Al, got the Nobel Peace Prize, (and you have to wonder, if you
read the selection criteria for that prize the selection board should
all be fired), for his movie. The inconvenient truth of which is that
much of the premise, and supporting evidence was just plain wrong, but
that never stopped a good story before. If you dig into the model used
by Discovery you'll probably find it's based on a CO2 model and uses the
correspondence to the uncorrected NASA data for it's corroboration.
keith_w wrote:
> keith_w wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>> That man can do a damned thing about changing the course of it's
>> progression or it's magnitude is just so much hogwash, and cannot be
>> supported.
>> Not MY words, the words of many renown scientists.
>>
>> Such hubris, to think puny humans can have an effect on weather
>> systems GLOBALLY.
>>
>> keith whaley
>>
>
> I'll retract that statement partly, in that the world's use of coal for
> burning IS, in my opinion, a major player in global warming.
>
> It's effect on climate and atmosphere (two pretty much inter-related
> terms) is well known.
> I failed to consider that aspect of man's affecting the warming taking
> place.
>
> I just read a long article in the March 2008 Discover magazine, and it's
> a major player in climate, from production of carbon dioxide.
> That article says the U.S. produces about 17% of the worldwide coal
> emissions, China much more...
>
> Apologies ~
>
> keith
>
>
>
>
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