Dear Judith:
Thanks for fighting the good fight against dogma and political propaganda in science, and expopsing the errors of the GHG scaremongers as you have.
Again the bottom line is that the human role in carbon dioxide activity is infinitesimal compared even to such unsuspected contributors to CO2 in the atmosphere as animal respiration (30 to 60 times as much as fossil fuel burning, and that’s only one tiny part of naturally produced CO2 – human breathing alone accounts for a substantial portion of CO2 emitted, and is in turn a tiny percentage of the total emissions from animal respiration).
And the impact of CO2 on climate is iinfinitesimal compared to solar luminosity, the rate of heat transfer from the earth’s interior, and above all the role of water vapor, which constitutes anywhere from 30 to 140 times as much of the atmosphere as CO2 (and if anyone doesn’t think H2O is a heat trap, why does 100 degrees feel so much hotter at 90 percent humidity than it does at 10 percent humidity?)
The anthropogenic climate change theory can be blown completely out of the water by some very simple observations and even simpler arithmetic. The GHG scaremongers are twice wrong – dead wrong about the human contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere, and just as wrong about the effect of CO2 on climate.
And one should not forget the bullying tactics engaged in by the GHG scaremongers — everything from blocking puplication of skeptical scientific papers to shouting down skeptics at conferences to actual threats of bodily harm to skeptics. Those sorts of tactics are pretty good evidence that these people are acting on political agendas and know fulkl well their “science” is garbage. And there is the unbelievable hypocrisy and effrontery of Al Gore whining about oh, the poor folk in Third World countries and criticizing John Q. Public for driving an SUV, while he consumes 10 times as much electricity in his house (most of it from coal-fired power plants!) as the average American household, and flies hither and yon in a private Boeing 727 — while crying all the way to the bank with the millions he is making by profiteering from people’s fears.