View Single Post
  #14 (permalink)  
Old 12-09-2007, 08:24 AM
Tokenconservative Tokenconservative is offline
Political Mastermind
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 1,423
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by crowonapost View Post
The biggest greenhouse gas is H20, true. It's not an issue of the biggest it's the issue of the gas that tips the temperature over time. Methane is a more concentrated green house gas but dissipates rather quickly. CO2 does not. That's why it's long term effect is more pronounced at tipping the temperature.

I'm sure you all knew that though.
I din't know dat!

Here is what I DO know: human activity accounts for, at most, 4-6% of the TOTAL CO2 in the atmosphere (Earth's... we are unsure as to what part human activity plays in the warming currently going on on most of the other planets in the Sol system, but a "consensus" of "scientists" is pretty sure Hummers are largely to blame there, too!).

Which reasonable minds can agree is a pretty small amount. Even more reasonable minds can agree that this is probably playing an infinitessimal role in the current (peaking in 1998, apparently) warming of the global climate.

Shrieking, anti-Western Global Warmingists (remind you of anyone?) will irrationally conclude that climate has never changed before, and that this piddling percentage of CO2 must then therefore be the sole cause of climate change and that since the US has a larger economy than anyone else (while producing far less pollution of this sort on a per-capita basis when adjusting for economic product, than even Canada, an amount about equal to that of Europe, and is a lame-assed piker compared to places like Russia, China, India) why, it must be the US that is "DESTROYING OUR MOTHER, THE EARTH!!!" and that's why the US should ratify Kyoto, because Kyoto is clearly intended to cripple the US economy (for purely environmental-concern reasons from the competing nations and socialists who hatched this nutty plan), so that we can save our Mother, the Earth!

I know that.

You do, too. But you have liberal blinders lag-bolted to the side of your head.

Tokie
Reply With Quote