re: True or False: climate change

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It's actually a little under 0.04%..about 0.038%

The point is, that volume is the total amount. Of that 0.04% an estimated 3-4% of that is do to human activity. So 3-4 % of 0,04% is the driver of catastrophe?? 0.034% of the whole?..everything is fine..totally natural and healthy. 0.038% of the whole? Horror....panic!

It's just dumb to think such a dramatic change will come from such a minuscule amount, and the science proves it to be an absurdist position.

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Guessing your source is about 10-15 years old. LINK It's 406 ppm as of today. It was 383 ppm 10 years ago. And you're gonna have to give me a name and not just say "an estimated" because that estimate sounds pretty dumb. It was 280ppm before the industrial era; the rest is on us.

And I just gotta chuckle at the argument from small numbers. The 280ppm of CO2 that was already in our atmosphere is the reason Earth has deserts and rainforests and the swamp-arse South instead of being a year-round frozen snowball. It's pretty intuitive that doubling that could have dramatic effects.