Mel Rowing wrote:
> On 12 Mar, 14:53, "Lloyd" wrote:
>> On Mar 11, 7:58 pm, "Stan" wrote:
>
>> Dumb. Humans generate CO2 by burning fossil fuels, increasing the CO2
>> in the atmosphere (up by 36% in the last 120 years). CO2 traps heat.
>>
>> What's not credible about that? It's so simple a caveman could
>> understand it.
>
> 36% of nowt is still nowt. The proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere is
> still less than 400 ppm or (if you want to play percentages) 0.0004%
> and a very important 0.0004% for without it life would not exist.
>
> Is there not some mileage in the notion that if our atmosphere were so
> precariously balanced then we all would not be here to say it since we
> would have dried up or frozen solid way back in our evolutionary past.
>
> CO2 does not "trap" heat. A CO2 molecule does absorb and immediatly re-
> emit certain frequency bands in the IR spectrum. You will note
> however, that in proportionate terms there are not that many of them
> around. There are certainly not, for example as many of them as there
> are water molecules which absorb and re-emit significantly more such
> frequency bands.
Apparently you are dumber than a cave man!
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