CLIMATE CHANGE ---- A rebuttal to Gore

Source: www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

Figure One -- Greenhouse by compounds
Figure Two -- Estimated greenhouse effect by doubling Carbon dioxide at various temperatures

The thrust of Al Gore's 'inconvenient Truth" is that man's carbon dioxide fumes and its greenhouse effect is driving climate change and unless we reduce the carbon dioxide we are headed for disaster.
This is the view on which Kyoto is now focused.

Figure One shows the greenhouse effect of various compounds. water with up to 4.0% of the atmosphere totals near 95% to the total, Carbon
dioxide with a mere .038% of the total volume varies between 4 to 8.0%
greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is a minor player.
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Figure Two shows the effect of doubling carbon dioxide at various temperatures. It is noted that the lines are not exponential as the Kyoto buffs assume but flattens. Doubling CO2 in this century will add only another one degree C. ( The BBC is restarting their 200,000 computer model since their first assumptions have been demonstrated to be much too high, garbage in garbage out)

The thrust of this blog is that mankind has the power to take us into to extinction so therefore I am in part in step with Gore. But there are many other things that may be driving climate change other that increasing carbon dioxide such as urban sprawl, cutting down the rain forest. The list is endless.

The bottom line the science is complex not simple and in Canada the Feds are doing the right thing in pausing and trying to focus where we can get the most bang for the buck.