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Originally Posted by photon
Not sure what the 1% represents. About 750 gigatons of CO2 move through the carbon cycle each year, humans contribute about 30 gigatons of CO2. A small number compared to the total, however there's no sink to offset all that contribution, so most of what we put into the atmosphere stays there, adding up year over year.
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So humans have contributed roughly 4% of the total CO2 contribution to the atmosphere......
How much of the total atmosphere is CO2? Isn't it something like 0.04%? This is so negligible.
The assumption that plants use the same amount of CO2 regardless of concentration levels is erroneous.
I wish this climate research could expand outside of the narrow view of a few Anglo-American institutions, namely the U of East Anglia and the IPCC.
Let's see what some credible dissenters have to say....
Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the history ... . When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." --
U.N. IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning Ph.D. environmental physical chemist
The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn't listen to others. It doesn't have open minds ... . I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists." -- Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the U.N.-supported International Year of the Planet.
"It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming." -- U.S. Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"After reading [U.N. IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet." -- Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an associate editor of Monthly Weather Review.
"Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp ... . Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact." -- Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch U.N. IPCC committee.
"CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another ... . Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so ... . Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver's seat and
developing nations walking barefoot." -- Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.
I just wanted to post some of these quotes to show some of my fellow skeptics that it is foolish to think that there is some kind of scientific consensus.