flacaltenn
Diamond Member
We do probably impact the climate a bit. And if you know the cause -- it MIGHT be preventable. CO2 has a diminishing effect on the GreenHouse. For every degree in temperature you get from increases in temperature -- you need TWICE as much CO2 to get the next degree. And water vapor is by far the LARGEST GHouse gas contributor. The GW theory states that man-made emissions are just the "trigger" to a runaway GH effect. That's the part of GW that is hotly debated and certainly not settled.
Well, there are 7 billion people on the planet. Within a few decades this will rise.
China has about 1.3 billion people, and rising, quickly. The one child policy is rocking because of social issues, the Chinese are getting richer, they're using three times more oil now than 15 years ago and this is with half the country still in relative poverty. India has the potential to get richer, as do many other countries, and with this comes more consumption of fuel and more pollution.
We don't really understand what's happening with CO2. Some suggest that the sea is taking in a lot of this CO2 mitigating the impact, but then what happens if the sea suddenly can't take it any more and all this CO2 suddenly increases by four, five, six fold or more?
Yes, water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. But it's always been there. The Greenhouse effect exists for a reason and we've developed as a world within these parameters. But we're changing these parameters and we don't know what is going to happen. If something goes wrong, there is no turning back.
More AGW religious dogma..
But then again the magnetic field of the planet has more to with climate than the CO2 myth..
CO2 does not drove climate and it never has..
Please name the scientist or the study that claimed CO2 drives the climate.
It's IMPLIED by the statement "that man is (Solely, Largely, or Significantly) responsible for the observed 1deg rise in average global temperatures since about the Industrial revolution. Logic, reason and deduction are your friends when you live in a world of science..
So it would be unreasonable to say that CO2 drives earths climate? Kosh is the one who claims that is what those who believe in AWG is saying.
Kosh is quite right. Most of the scientific investigation into how the Earth's climate system works has been lasered focused on CO2 -- to the detriment of better understanding the complexity and the fundamentals. So MOST of AGW science is treating CO2 as the PRIMARY reason for every small blip in temperature that occurs.
It's reflected in their models and it's a main thesis of how the Earth will commit suicide if the temperature passes their "point of no return" ..