Who knows the link between CO2 Emissions and Climate Change?

Question

There are lots of new words being used for our climate threat these days "carbon pollution" is the latest - do you know what CO2 means in the climate change debate? Do you think too many names for the problem create distraction or not? I'm making a new Bulletin Board for this extremely important issue http://www.climatecleanup.org/co2_emissions/index.php

Answer 1

CO2 is what the plants need to live. The plants need CO2 as much as u need oxygen. If U want to get real U need to stop breathing. CO2 is a very heavy Gas and is on the ground where the plants can get it. It is so heavy we use it to smother a fire. There is very little in the oceans. Try to put salt in a carbonated beverage. It will release almost all the CO2.Actually it is a scam to make money from the stupid.

Answer 2

See:

http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/arc...

You see any correlation between CO2 and avg global temp?

CO2 is rising -- no one doubts that -- and temps have been steady or cooling for the past ten years.

Answer 3

This is pretty simple actually - when we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon that's been trapped for millions of years.  If we release more of this carbon than the natural carbon cycle can absorb, it accumulates in the atmosphere.  Since CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the more of it is in the atmosphere, the more heat it 'traps', and thus the more it warms the planet.  And as the planet warms, its climate changes.

Answer 4

No one knows enough about the interaction to accurately answer your question.  The earth and it's climate is not a Homogeneous system.  The amount of variables from one location the next prevents any accurate "global" measurement for everything from CO2 to temperature.  Look up "missing CO2" on a search engine and you will see that Scientist investigating CO2 levels are having a big problem quantifying the actual amount in the atmosphere. The levels change so much from one location to the next that they are not sure what all the influences actually are in the environment. The computer models created to predict what the levels are supposed to be, are not even close to the real time measurements.  

The hardest thing for so called experts on the environment to admit, is that there is alot more that they do not know, then what they do know.    

Answer 5

Your first question is 'who knows'?

The answer is: Anyone who can read should know - the knowledge has been with us for over 100 years. But as to who actually knows I would have to say people who have had access to a basic education (and the internet is only a peripheral part of education).

There are a lot of different terms but that is because there are a lot of different factors. The planet's climate is hugely complex - it is only logical that there will be many different factors.

That said, anything that enhances knowledge and understanding is a good thing. You might want to start with the basics such as 'weather' versus 'climate', natural climatic cycles versus anthropogenic rapid climate change, basic statistics including 'noise' and 'outlier', etc - these are common areas of misconception

Answer 6

There is no link between CO2 and climate.  You can't say an atmosphere with 200ppm CO2 is a boreal climate (-40C to 30C), while a  300ppm CO2 atmosphere is subtropical (8 months with a mean temperature of 10C or above).