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re: True or False: climate change
Posted on 3/14/17 at 4:10 pm to Dale51
Posted on 3/14/17 at 4:10 pm to Dale51
quote: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.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 3/14/17 at 4:13 pm to Iosh
quote:Dude . . . .
The 280ppm of CO2 that was already in our atmosphere is the reason Earth isn't a year-round frozen snowball.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 4:19 pm to Iosh
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It was 280ppm before the industrial era; the rest is on us.
This is deflection from the point. You're back to focusing on CO2 exclusively, when the point was to gain perspective on the percentage of the atmosphere as a whole.
But seeing that you don't want to comprehend the insignificance of the percentage contributed to human activity, lets set a baseline for CO2.
What have the highest concentration of CO2 been?
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