Comments on Boatang & Demetriou: Global Warming - A Good Argument

It's true water will dissipate according to temper...

2009-07-02T21:02:07.160+01:00

It's true water will dissipate according to temperature, but its effect over time increases as CO2 accumulates, raising the temperature.

Water in the atmosphere may well increase, but if the CO2 increase is tiny, then so is the water.

But that's just the way it is.

More interestingly statements such "Human emissions of CO2 are now estimated to be

@David Davis I agree methane needs taking into ac...

2009-07-02T18:48:11.990+01:00

@David Davis

I agree methane needs taking into account - it's a very potent greenhouse gas - water on the other hand has a self-regulatory feedback system. CO2 gets picked on mainly because we can do more about that, and its a much easier target to tax/deal with.

As for the article... I found more than a couple of inaccuracies. This appears to be the order of day for any

You culd add, if you want:- (1) the atmosphere we...

2009-07-02T17:27:43.944+01:00

You culd add, if you want:-

(1) the atmosphere weighs about 5,200 trillion tonnes (that's 5.2 x 1E15 in standard form.)

(2) The best estimate of CO2 mass at present is 1.54 trillion tonnes (1.54E12) This is 0.03% give or take a tiny bit.

What the IPCC are trying to put over is that a /tiny/ mass change of CO2 can cause a /statistically large/ and therefore