Climate Change: take my test

[philip964]

Trump makes the Paris climate accord decision announcement today at 3:00 pm

The Washinton Post view:

Trump is about to do something terrible and destructive. The GOP must own the consequences. - The Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pl ... 2d08fc5ffe

Take my simple climate change test:

What is the percent of CO2 in the atmosphere?

No cheating, no looking it up. What you think it is right now.

[oljames3]

About 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% other, so less than 0.1% CO2?

[anygunanywhere]

About 400 ppm, which equates to .04%.

[Bitter Clinger]

About 400 ppm, which equates to .04%.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

[TreyHouston]

Its Trumps fault Greenland turned to ice!

[bblhd672]

Obviously a ban on dihydrogen oxide is needed.

[JohnDoe]

Obviously a ban on dihydrogen oxide is needed.

[oljames3]

Obviously a ban on dihydrogen oxide is needed.

That idea is all wet.

[philip964]

About 400 ppm, which equates to .04%.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Yes all this fuss is over CO2 in the atmosphere increasing from .0300% to now .0406% per NASA 's website. ( I currently don't particularly trust NASA's website, sad I know)

Understand if CO2 drops below .0100% all life on Earth dies, including all liberals, pandas and kittens.

So when you see all the tumult in the news today with spiked charts and graphs, we are debating about minute amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.

[Jago668]

Without looking it up I'd say 0.3%. Just looked it up, 0.04%.

[apvonkanel]

Yes all this fuss is over CO2 in the atmosphere increasing from .0300% to now .0406% per NASA 's website. ( I currently don't particularly trust NASA's website, sad I know)

Understand if CO2 drops below .0100% all life on Earth dies, including all liberals, pandas and kittens.

So when you see all the tumult in the news today with spiked charts and graphs, we are debating about minute amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.

While these are accurate statements, there are countless chemicals that are safe at minute levels in the human body yet even at sub-percent increases become fatal. We're looking at trace chemical that has increased by more than 1/3 of it's original recorded level. For comparison's sake, we're looking roughly at the equivalent of an ounce of a substance in a 150 lb body.

[Papa_Tiger]

Using philip964's nubmers, that is a 35.33% increase in CO2 as a percentage of Earth's atmosphere. Not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination. The main questions that people are wrestling with are:

1) Is this increase in CO2 the driver of significant climate change?
2) Is primary source of this increase in CO2 from human activity?
3) If the increase in CO2 is caused by human activity and results in global climate change:
a. Do we need to do something about it?
b. Can we do something about it?

[TreyHouston]

Using philip964's nubmers, that is a 35.33% increase in CO2 as a percentage of Earth's atmosphere. Not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination. The main questions that people are wrestling with are:

1) Is this increase in CO2 the driver of significant climate change?
2) Is primary source of this increase in CO2 from human activity?
3) If the increase in CO2 is caused by human activity and results in global climate change:
a. Do we need to do something about it?
b. Can we do something about it?

Liberals say about 3 trillion dollars of Americas credit card should do it! Don't ask exactly where the money goes to...

[Pariah3j]

Well according to the Liberal propaganda I was forced to sit through during middle school... the Ozone should be completely eroded and we should be wearing special suits to go outside and play. Considering that's not the case, and they dropped that one as soon as the legislation and regulations they wanted got passed... at this point I call bull on anything the mainstream, government funded, chicken little 'scientists' say

The other point that led me to believe it's complete bull, is the whole 'climate deniers' label they love to use if you question their science or methodology... No one is claiming that the Climate is not or does not change. We only are debating on the rate it's changing and how much if any impact humans may or may not have...

I want to say more but must keep it forum safe... last point though, correlation does not equal causation except in climate science.

[jason812]

Warmer climate = more grass = more cows = more hamburgers, and I like a tasty burger. So let's make more CO2