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re: True or False: climate change

Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:35 am to
Posted by Taxing Authority
Houston
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:35 am to
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By continuing to pump CO2 into the atmosphere, and methane from cow emissions, eventually a point of no return will be reached, where the Earth's retention of solar radiation will overwhelm its ability to dispel heat, and a Venus-like runaway greenhouse inferno will materialize
This would be true if everything was 1:1 and linear like iosh's chart. But it's not reality. CO2 radiative forcing isn't linear. Radiative heat losses aren't linear. Temperature and water vapor are both non linear and have huge discrete discontinuities.
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 9:36 am
Posted by Duke
Twin Lakes, CO
Member since Jan 2008
35701 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 10:05 am to
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CO2 radiative forcing isn't linear.


Point worth making. It's logrithmic with changes in concentration.

If you're going to go all engineer nerd on folks, why not explain the relationship a little? Folks might learn something.
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