Re: duh-Mikey's great intellect ;-)

On Apr 17, 11:29 pm, avidlistener <not2coo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 15, 1:25 pm, George M. Middius <cmndr _ george @ comcast .





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duh-Mikey blithered:

What percentage of the atmosphere is CO2?

Less than 1%. Why do you ask?

Why is it more of a problem than water vapor?

"What Are Greenhouse Gases?
Many chemical compounds found in the Earth's atmosphere act as
"greenhouse gases." These gases allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere
freely. When sunlight strikes the Earth's surface, some of it is
reflected back towards space as infrared radiation (heat). Greenhouse
gases absorb this infrared radiation and trap the heat in the
atmosphere. Over time, the amount of energy sent from the sun to the
Earth's surface should be about the same as the amount of energy
radiated back into space, leaving the temperature of the Earth's surface
roughly constant."

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html

Water vapor is not a greenhouse gas, nor does it affect the insect
population adversely.

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Thank you for demonstrating your lack of knowledge on the subject of
GW. Water vapor plays a much more important role in GW than does CO2.

Water vapor, not carbon dioxide (CO2), is the most important
greenhouse gas. Computing the
exact contribution of each type of greenhouse gas to the overall
greenhouse effect is complicated, because
the gases "overlap" in some of the spectra in which they absorb
infrared radiation. Taking the overlaps
into account, RealClimate.Org concludes that "water vapor is the
single most important absorber
(between 36% and 66% of the greenhouse effect), and together with
clouds makes up between 66% and
85%. CO2 alone makes up between 9 and 26%, while the O3 and the other
minor GHG absorbers consist
of up to 7 and 8% of the effect, respectively."1
Gore editorializes when he says that we have "vastly" increased the
amount of CO2. The amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is so small that CO2 is referred to
as a "trace gas." Over the past century
and a half, atmospheric CO2 levels have risen from about 280 parts per
million (ppm) to about 380 ppm-
from roughly 3/100ths to roughly 4/100ths of one percent of the
atmosphere.

Who was this plagiarized from?

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