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by neerd
1103 days ago
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Please explain then the Scripps CO2 trend line? These measures are taken at some of the most remote places on earth. I would know because I personally collected atmospheric samples at the Alert, Nunavut sample point. The fact is we have drastically changed the composition of or atmosphere to include more CO2 and the physics is clear on the effect that has on the amount of heat retained. |
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Warning: napkin math, ahead:
Since CO2 represent 0.04% of Earth atmosphere whilst H2O (the biggest offending atmospheric heat radiation) is at the very most 4% ( or H2O is 100x worse) leaving us with the mankind’s measured amount that is only impacting at the very most 20% toward the CO2 level, that narrows mankind’s impact of CO2 contribution to less than 0.002% of atmosphere.
And while CO2 is less than 1/12th of total bandwidth of atmospheric radiation (in contrast to the most impactful H2O by 100x by volume) by its total bandwidth contribution toward Earth radiation, mankind’s CO2 contribution of retention to heat got narrowed down to less than 0.0017% of the Earth atmospheric heat (based on CO2 alone).
Bonus: IMHO, methane is seriously an overrated bogeyman as an impacting mean of retaining atmospheric heat but the tundra remains the largest short-term store of methane and should not be lightly discounted there; Los Banos, California (think land of million shits, cow manure) and 4-Corner New Mexico are currently the two largest man-made methane producer in US (we haven’t sufficiently quantify the thousands of poorly capped well heads left behind by ancient oil companies).
Caveat: I have made no attempt to say that a certain bandwidth/band of heat energy frequency range has more influential impact over another IR sub-band, notably entirely within the IR side of the spectrum. But my IR lab work of inter-sub-band IR preliminary shows even lesser impact by CO2 … than water vapor (H2O), but that’s my direct scientific observation of dissemination of between sub-IR band and its corresponding energy level.
Caveat: I have made no calculus (just the napkin math) but the above would be better redone using CO2 contribution share in contrast against many other gases’ share … in terms of absorption and scattering.
Chart of various gases of atmospheric radiation of biggest retention/reflective:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/WG3sI.png
CO2 is 0.035% of Earth atmosphere:
https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmosphere#:~:text=The%20atmo....
Sidenote: I planted several hundred trees during 1970s around one top-25 urban area as part of the city’s larger 1-million Tree project and they all now look cool today, and literally cool as in a huge shade. I should be able to boast that I did my part of CO2 reduction arguably at a larger scale when compared to my fellow men.