CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? The Science of Doom

As the echo-chamber becomes ever shriller with their insinuations of dishonestly among the scientists who make up the climatological community.  

It would be good for interested citizens to try to understand the basics that underpin the scientific consensus.

For those who are actually interested in learning why over 95% of scientists who are familiar with global warming issues - understand and support the notion that CO2 and other GreenhouseGases are the major drivers of recent unusual increases in Earth's temperature and weather patterns, {and why these scientists are worried about the future situation becoming ever more intense} - Science of Doom does an excellent job of explaining the science.

I invite those interested in learning to spend some time reading through this first class climate education website.

CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? Part One 

November 28, 2009 ~ by scienceofdoom.com

 http://scienceofdoom.com/2009/11/28/co2 ... -part-one/ 

section headings:
Argument from Inconceivability
How do we analyze the Earth’s Climate?
Energy from the Sun
Energy from the Earth
Energy Absorbed by Gases in the Atmosphere
Measurements in the Lab
What Effect Does it Have?
The Maths
The Stefan-Boltzmann Law states: . . .

But wait, there's more, ScienceOfDoom.com:

Climate is a complex subject. Hopefully this explains some basics and we can start looking a little deeper in subsequent posts.
More in this series: 

Part Two – why different gases absorb different amounts of energy, why some gases absorb almost no longwave radiation 

Part Three – the Beer Lambert model of absorption and the concept of re-emission of radiation 

Part Four – band models and how transmittance of CO2 changes as the amount of CO2 increases under “weak” and “strong” conditions 

Part Five – two results from solving the 1-d equations – and how CO2 compares to water vapor 

Part Six – Visualization - what does the downwards longwave radiation look like at the earth’s surface 

Part Seven – The Boring Numbers – the values of “radiative forcing” from CO2 for current levels and doubling of CO2. 

Part Eight – Saturation – explaining “saturation” in more detail 

CO2 Can’t have that Effect Because.. – common “problems” or responses to the theory and evidence presented

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