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concentrate on the serious damage being done to the planet with Radiation, Deforestation, Herbicides, Pesticides, Sulphides, PCB's the list goes on, pumped onto the land and into the atmosphere. CO2 is the very least of our problems.
The folly of your argument shows you lack the understanding of basic chemistry. 400ppm is not a trace amount of a substance in the atmosphere and the 40% increase over the last 50 years is a cause for concern. It will change our atmosphere in terms of radiative forcing, and it has changed our oceans in terms of making them more acidic. To claim that 400ppm(and rising) is not significant is flat out lie.
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
It's already been proven over and over again, the numbers and charts have been fudged, it's a clear case of scientific fraud to meet a political agenda.
It has nothing to do with maintaining a decent level of human society for 90% of us, maybe 10% of us LOL. As far as bailing out corps, government and banks, well yeah, they'll trade carbon credits just like they did pollution credits,
it's already started and the speculation is running high. Face it, the whole thing is a scam and you can't change that using manipulated numbers to produce questionable "scientific" results to meet a top down result that fits an agenda.
Oh, I know the excuse that, that many scientists wouldn't lie or use lies of omission. You're wrong, they can be easily controlled through simple instruments, like grants, tenure and employment.
As I said in another thread, my partners did it at the university by donating money to create tenured "Chairs" so they would be bought and paid for to produce specific scientific statements for investment purposes and they used to refer to the students that were working on our projects as "thinking meat." In many ways (but not in all cases) the scientific community are just as big a set of whores as the financial community.
originally posted by: kennyb72
a reply to: mc_squared
Me thinks you’re kicking up some pretty muddy water of your own there. Your narrative is indicative of the kind of skeptic mindset that way overcomplicates everything to avoid the simple facts:
0.04 percent of the total atmosphere, a precious little trace element. You want simple facts:
how about an extra 5.7 billion precious souls exhaling since 1885. That should account for your 200ppm easily with some to spare.
originally posted by: kennyb72
You all appear to be delusional, carried away in a rhetorical psychosis, of (radiative forcing, acidic oceans, run away greenhouse gasses - run away, run away aaraargh...)
Here let me show you.
1,000,000 compared to 400. There!, you can say it till you are blue in the face, but 400 can barely be seen if you where to put these two numbers together on a scale.
it is a TRACE element, get it...
originally posted by: jrod
originally posted by: kennyb72
You all appear to be delusional, carried away in a rhetorical psychosis, of (radiative forcing, acidic oceans, run away greenhouse gasses - run away, run away aaraargh...)
Here let me show you.
1,000,000 compared to 400. There!, you can say it till you are blue in the face, but 400 can barely be seen if you where to put these two numbers together on a scale.
it is a TRACE element, get it...
You have resorted to ad hominum attacks, that shows you are the one who is frustrated with the way this 'debate' is going.
CO2 is not an element, it is a molecule. This shows a lack of understanding of basic chemistry on your behalf.
I do not even know where to begin with the claim that 400ppm is not significant. There are about 7 billion people on this planet, saying the 400ppm would be the same as saying about 2.8 million people of this planet are not significant, that is larger than the US military, so using your logic the US military is not a significant force on this planet.
Are you going to tell me that 280million people of the world are simply not significant?
Also CO2 concentrations have increased by 40%.....that is a significant jump. No sane person will argue the 40% increase of CO2 is insignificant.
Also CO2 concentrations have increased by 40%.....that is a significant jump. No sane person will argue the 40% increase of CO2 is insignificant.
CO2 is not an element, it is a molecule. This shows a lack of understanding of basic chemistry on your behalf.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Venus must have populations of trillions!
And our oceans are rising because of all those billions of people pissing, right?
originally posted by: kennyb72
You all appear to be delusional, carried away in a rhetorical psychosis, of (radiative forcing, acidic oceans, run away greenhouse gasses - run away, run away aaraargh...)
Here let me show you....
This is an example of an ad hominum style attack against a poster, that poster being me. Then you go on to deny it with another ad hominum style attack by suggesting I do not know what an ad hominum is. yourlogicalfallacyis.com...
The folly of your argument shows you lack the understanding of basic chemistry.
This shows a lack of understanding of basic chemistry on your behalf.
Example: After Sally presents an eloquent and compelling case for a more equitable taxation system, Sam asks the audience whether we should believe anything from a woman who isn’t married, was once arrested, and smells a bit weird.
you just rant about stuff that has nothing to do with this subject. I think the fallacy you are grasping at now is of the Tu quoque variety. Respond to criticism with criticism...
At least now you can not deny that 400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere is not significant, nor is the 40% rise of CO2 we have observed over the past half century.
Your whole point of CO2 levels being insignificant has been shown to be wrong.
"Mauna Loa is often used as an example of rising carbon dioxide levels because its the longest, continuous series of directly measured atmospheric CO2. The reason why it's acceptable to use Mauna Loa as a proxy for global CO2 levels is because CO2 mixes well throughout the atmosphere. Consequently, the trend in Mauna Loa CO2 (1.64 ppm per year) is statistically indistinguishable from the trend in global CO2 levels (1.66 ppm per year). If global CO2 was used in Figure 1 above, the result "hockey stick" shape would be identical."
If I really get bored I could maybe even run through some numbers to show this to be the case
The 40%+ increase of CO2 is directly related to our burning of natural gas, coal, and oil. Either accept it or remain ignorant.
It is almost laughable that you claim there is 'zero evidence' of our pumping CO2 into the atmosphere as a result of using coal, oil, natural gas, among other products increases the observed CO2 in said atmosphere. These CO2 increases correlate with the industrial age...
Measurement of Pre-Industrial CO2 Levels
By Dr Timothy Ball 11/2008 Fields Geography, historical climatology
The pre-industrial CO2 level was not significantly lower than current levels. Neither they nor the present readings are high relatively to the geologic record. The entire output of computer climate models begins with the assumption that pre- industrial levels were measurably lower. Elimination of this assumption further undermines the claim that the warming in the industrial era period was due to human addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Combined with their assumption that CO2 causes temperature increase when all records show the opposite then it is not surprising that IPCC predictions of temperature increase are consistently wrong.
Logical deduction has no place on online forums apparently.