The Climategate Inquiries

Originally posted by MacSwain
EARTHS ATMOSPHERE

Earth’s atmosphere allows the sun’s heat in but resists its re-radiation back into space. The atmosphere is comprised of nitrogen 78%, oxygen 21%, argon 0.93% and CO2 0.04%. Many other gases are present in trace amounts. The lower atmosphere also contains varying amounts of water vapour, up to 4% by volume.

Nitrogen and Oxygen are n ...[text shortened]... an effect on global warming equal to the change eliminating anthropogenic CO2 would realise.[/i]

Here's a graph of the CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere since 1960:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide-en.svg

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Here's a graph of the CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere since 1960:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide-en.svg

MacSwain's point is that water vapor is a greenhouse gas, and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere totally dwarfs the amount of CO2 - so even if the amount of CO2 was to double, triple, or quadruple, it would seem to have very little effect on the total amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Do you have a response to this argument?

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Is the report in the OP relevant for any of the points that I was making?

My only point is that you have conceeded to the global warming rhetoric. Have you read the report that investigates those who have convinced you of your stance?

Originally posted by Melanerpes
MacSwain's point is that water vapor is a greenhouse gas, and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere totally dwarfs the amount of CO2 - so even if the amount of CO2 was to double, triple, or quadruple, it would seem to have very little effect on the total amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Do you have a response to this argument?

Melanerpes ... welcome to the dark side ...