CobblyWorlds has done a nice job on this forum of throwing out web pages trying to convince you that global warming is linked to CO2 and therefore man made. Instead of wasting days going back a forth on who is paid by big oil, or if CO2 came before temp, or if the sun is causing the change why don’t we just look at how much of the “global warming” effect comes from humans. The answer is about .28%. CobblyWorlds gave an example earlier that a bottle filled with CO2 would heat faster than a bottle filled with air. A more honest comparison would have been a bottle filled with air versus a bottle filled with air + .28% more CO2. In this example the temperature difference would have been so minute I doubt it even could be measured. CO2 may cause temperature increases, but it is so infinitesimally small that we shouldn’t even consider trashing the world’s economy and dooming the third world with big cuts in C02. There are new amazing technologies in development that will eventually end our dependence on fossil fuels, but a crappy economy will dampen that development and force us to use more fossil fuels.
