Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
1) How much of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of green house gases?
2) What is the largest (by far) green house gas?
3) How much of the green house gas is CO2?
4) How much of the green house gas, CO2 is generated by human activity?
5) Overall how what percentage of the green house gas is generated by human activity?
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RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
Right now I think the biggest producer of green house gases would be methane..which is a direct result of bull$hit. With that being said...would it be acceptable to levy one of them there new carbon cap taxes on Washington, DC as it seems to be the leading producer? Or possibly making Al Gore illegal?
RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
Doe dumper, sorry but your incorrect.
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RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
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ORIGINAL: kevin1
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ORIGINAL: Fieldmouse
1) How much of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of green house gases?
Under 3%
2) What is the largest (by far) green house gas?
Water vapor
3) How much of the green house gas is CO2?
Less than 3%
4) How much of the green house gas, CO2 is generated by human activity?
Less than 2%
5) Overall how what percentage of the green house gas is generated by human activity?
Less than 1%
How many did I get right?
1 and 2 are correct but 3 is wrong. 4 and 5 aretechnically correct but very far off.
Don't we have ANY global warming folks out there that can answer these simple questions? How can you be convinced if you don't know these answers?
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Ronald Reagan: 'Everybody that is for abortion has already been born'
"I never said I was worth it. I only said I wouldn't do it for less " William F. Buckley Jr.
RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
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ORIGINAL: Fieldmouse
1) How much of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of green house gases?
~2%
2) What is the largest (by far) green house gas?
Water Vapor (~95% of all greenhouse gas)
3) How much of the green house gas is CO2?
~3.6%
4) How much of the green house gas, CO2, is generated by human activity?
~3.4%
5) Overall what percentage of the green house gas is generated by human activity?
Not sure exactly what your question is here. Just CO2? If so, CO2 is 3.6% of all greenhouse gases, multiplied by 3.4% which is generated by human activity, means that, of all greenhouse gases, human generated CO2 is ~0.123008%. Since greenhouse gases represent less than 2% of the atmosphere, that means that human generated CO2 is less than .00246% of the atmosphere.
RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
Methane blows CO2 away in terms of the "Greenhouse Effect".It leads to much greaterwarming when present in the atmosphere. More and more is being released every day as methyl hydrates melt near the poles--in fact atmospheric methane is more abundant today than anytime in "recent" geological history.
The good news, however, is that it tends to break down fairly quickly--four to nine times faster than CO2. Then again, it breaks down into CO2 (and water) anyway.
RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! You don't understand! This debate about globalwarmingclimatechangegreenhousegas does not allow the use of numbers, quantification, probabilities with any specification of opertive hypotheses or range of error. No quantification! Other than 200 feet. That is the only number that can be used. This is the amount the sea levels will rise with absolute undeniable (I sense you are denying :-o ) certainty. Especially it is absolutely verbotten to quantify the diminished standard of living we will all enjoy as a result of dialing back our CO2 emissions, how many jobs will be lost, how many families will no longer be able to afford to send their children to college for a college education. Zip it! No numbers!
RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
Hey Wahoo and Rainman, you guys gonna answer??[:'(]
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RE: Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
I found the following paragraph in Wikipedia:
"Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere by a variety of natural sources, and over 95% of total CO2 emissions would occur even if humans were not present on Earth. For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands, such as dead trees, results in the release of about 220 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year. This carbon dioxide alone is over 8 times the amount emitted by humans. Although natural sources represent most CO2 emissions, they do not contribute to the recent observed increase in concentrations because natural sources are balanced by natural sinks that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[7] The increase in carbon dioxide concentration arises because the increase from human activity is not completely balanced by a corresponding sink."
So it appears that while anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide are only a small part of total CO2 production, they are the primary reason for the increase in concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in recent years. From ice cores we know that in 1832 CO2 in the atmosphere was 284 ppmv, which had grown to 384 ppmv in 2007. This is a 35% increase atmospheric CO2 concentration in 175 years. The amount of heat trapping is a function of atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gasses, not how much is produced in total. We need to be concerned about how strong the heat trapping effect will become if the concentration goes to 500 ppmv or 600 ppmv. Anthropogenic sources of CO2 are the predominant reason for the increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 and that is why they have a disproportianate impact on global surface temperatures.
Please, someone answer these simple CO2 questions?
Or possibly making Al Gore illegal? 
