201903-Co2_Levels2_1_.pdf
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Q1. What % of the air is CO2?
… CO2 is less than a mere four 100ths of 1%! As a decimal it is
0.038%. As a fraction it is 1/27 th of 1%. (Measurements for CO2
vary from one source to another from 0.036% - 0.039% due to the
difficulty in measuring such a small quantity and due to changes in
wind direction e.g. whether the air flow is from an industrialized
region or a volcanic emission etc)
Nitrogen is just over 78%, Oxygen is just under 21% and Argon is
almost 1%.
CO2 is a minute trace gas at 0.038%.
… the vast bulk of the population have very little knowledge of
science so they find it impossible to make judgements about even
basic scientific issues let alone ones as complex as climate.
This makes it easy for those with agendas to deceive us by using
emotive statements rather than facts. For a detailed breakup of the
atmosphere go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Composition
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Q3. What % of CO2 do humans produce?
… Nature produces nearly all of it. Humans produce only 3%.
As a decimal it is a miniscule 0.001% of the air.
All of mankind produces only one molecule of CO2 in around every
90,000 air molecules!
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Q4. What % of man-made CO2 does Australia produce?
1% of the 0.001% of man-made CO2. As a decimal it is an
insignificant 0.00001% of the air. That’s one, one-hundredth
thousandth of the air. That is what all the fuss is about!
That’s one CO2 molecule from Australia in every 9,000,000 molecules
of air.
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Q5. Is CO2 is a pollutant?
… CO2 is a harmless, trace gas. It is as necessary for life - just
as oxygen and nitrogen are. It is a natural gas that is clear,
tasteless and odourless. It is in no way a pollutant.
Calling CO2 a ‘pollutant’ leads many to wrongly think of it as
black, grey or white smoke. Because the media deceitfully show
white or grey ‘smoke’ coming out of power station cooling towers,
most think this is CO2. It is not: it’s just steam (water vapour)
condensing in the air. CO2 is invisible: just breathe out and see.
Look at it bubbling out of your soft drinks, beer or sparkling
wine. No one considers that a pollutant - because it’s not. CO2 in
its frozen state is commonly known as dry ice. It is used in
camping eskys, in medical treatments and science experiments. No
one considers that a pollutant either. CO2 is emitted from all
plants. This ‘emission’ is not considered a pollutant even though
this alone is 33 times more than man produces! Huge quantities of
CO2 are dissolved naturally in the ocean and released from the warm
surface. This is not considered a pollutant either.
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Q6. Have you seen any evidence that CO2 causes a greenhouse
effect?
Respondent’s Answers: Most did not know of any definite proof. Some
said they thought the melting of the Arctic and glaciers was
possibly proof.
The Correct Answer: There is no proof at all. The Intergovernmental
Panel for Climate Change (the IPCC) has never produced any proof.
There are, however the following proofs that it can’t cause a
greenhouse effect.
• It is true that CO2 can absorb heat a little faster than nitrogen
and oxygen but it becomes no hotter because it cannot absorb
anymore heat than there is available to the other gases. This is
against the laws of thermodynamics. All gases share their heat
with the other gases. Gas molecules fly around and are
constantly colliding with other gas molecules so they immediately
lose any excess heat to other molecules during these collisions.
That’s why the air is all one temperature in any limited volume.
• Even if CO2 levels were many times higher, radiative heating
physics shows that it would make virtually no difference to
temperature because it has a very limited heating ability. With
CO2, the more there is, the less it heats because it quickly
becomes saturated. For a detailed explanation go to:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
The following facts show that even high levels of CO2 can make
almost no impact on heating the atmosphere.
1. Glasshouses with high levels of CO2 - hundreds of times higher
than in the air to make plants grow faster – heat up during the
day to the same temperature as glasshouses with air in them.
This is also true for bottles of pure CO2 compared to ones with
air.
2. The planets Venus and Mars have atmospheres that are almost
entirely CO2 (97%) yet they have no ‘runaway’ greenhouse heating
effect. Their temperatures are stable.
3. The geological record over hundreds of millions of years has
shown that CO2 has had no affect whatsoever on climate. At
times, CO2 was hundreds of times higher, yet there were ice
ages.
4. In recent times when Earth was considerably warmer during the
Roman Warming and the Medieval Warming, the higher temperatures
then were totally natural because there was no industrialization
back then.
• Water vapour is 4% of the air and that‘s 100 times as much as
CO2. Water vapour absorbs 33 times as much heat as CO2 making
CO2’s contribution insignificant. But like CO2, water vapour also
gives this heat away to air molecules by contact (conduction) and
radiation, thereby making the surrounding air the same
temperature.
• The Earth’s atmosphere is very thin so its heat is continually
being lost to the absolute coldness of outer space (-270 C). As
there is no ‘ceiling’ to the atmosphere, surface heat cannot be
retained. The Sun renews warmth every day.
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Over the last few years Earth has had much colder winters due to
very few magnetic storms on the Sun. These four increasingly
colder winters have been particularly noticeable in the northern
hemisphere where most of the land is. Because of this, the Arctic
has re-frozen and glaciers that were receding are now surging due
to the heavy snow falls. The Arctic showed some melting around its
edges from the mid 90s to the mid 2000s due to the very high level
of solar storm activity at that time. But as the Sun is now
entering probably 2-4 decades of low solar activity, this is
expected to cause global cooling.
… Despite more than a decade of continual doomsday predictions of
increasing temperatures and never-ending drought globally,
the opposite has happened. There have been lower temperatures
globally with greatly increased rain and snows over much of
the planet since 2006. This has caused floods across most of
Australia and most other counties, as seen on the TV news. This
ended the global 10 year drought conditions from the mid 90s to the
mid 2000s. There has been no drop in CO2 to cause this:
in fact, CO2 has risen. There is no correlation between CO2 levels
and climate. The reason CO2 levels have gone up a little is
most likely due to the surface of the oceans warming very slightly
during the later half of the century and therefore releasing a
little CO2. (The oceans are currently cooling very slightly.)
Mankind’s contribution to CO2 is so small it’s not measurable.
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----- Forwarded message from Gil May