Doc, I know where you are going with your argument and there is some validity in it. I think the evidence could be shown that the Earth has warmed more rapidly in times when the Earths atmosphere has more CO2. What concerns me is the rapid coastal erosion, vast glacial/ice cap decreases that I am witnessing with my own eyes.
Mathmatically, it's impossible for CO2 to make the kind of impact that is claimed. As in... not possible.
The single largest contributer to the "green house effect" (GHE), is oddly enough... water. H2O. Roughly 90% to 95% of the whole "GHE" is water. We'll assume 90%.
Yeah but 10% of the GHE is massive!! Not exactly... of the remaining 10%, there are other GHE gasses like Methane, Nitrogen oxide, Ozone, and of course carbon dioxide, with CO2 being the largest. So now, only ~8% of the GHE, is due to CO2.
But that 8% is all us, and that's huge! Well no, because from the most recent measurements, human activity only accounts for 3.4% of the yearly emitted CO2. So we only own up to 3.4% of the 8% GHE due to CO2... or... 0.27% of the GHE is due to humans. That's less than half of 1% of the total GHE.
Well that still could be an incredible effect!!! Well... not exactly. Another problem is that simply because there is more CO2 to absorb heat, doesn't mean there is more heat to be absorbed. It's the principal of diminishing returns.
Well yeah whatever, I bet our 0.27% causes a huge rise in temps! No not exactly. There are three competing theories for how much the GHE raises temps on the earth. All three conclude that it raises it around 33ºC. So that 0.27% of the 33ºC effect is a change in temp under 0.089ºC Or not noticeable on bare skin.
In order to increase the worlds average mean temp by just 1ºC, we would be required to boost the amount of atmospheric CO2 by nearly 3X. Which will be hard since we currently only account for roughly 3.4% of yearly CO2. In other words we would have to increase CO2 production by 59 times current world wide human production.
But here's the best part... we could
never do it. Even if we pumped all the oil world wide, burnt all the trees world wide, and cranked out every source of CO2 possible... in the end we could never make enough CO2, to raise the earths temp by 1ºC.... why? Because CO2 becomes toxic at 6,000 PPM, and in order to do this, we'd have to hit 90,000 PPM... as in, we'd all be dead long before we raised the earths temp by 1ºC from man made CO2.
Bottom line... Global Warming from man made CO2 is a fraud and a scam.
Coastal erosion has been happening for thousands of years. If you wish to deal with it, great. But it has nothing to do with national policy (as far as I know), or some fantastical human caused issue. If you know something more, feel free.
Glacial changes and Ice cap changes, are normal. According to the Swedish glacial monitoring service, 57% of glaciers are advancing. Further, the Antarctic cap is growing. In fact, the antarctic has recently set a huge record, and the temps in the southern hemisphere have dropped 1ºC in the past years. In other words, the normal natural changes in our environment are happening on their own.