Will a doubleing of carbon dioxide really even matter?

Question

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there is so little carbon dioxide in the atmostphere that even if you trippled it, you probobaly wouldn't be able to see it well on the pie chart.

http://mistupid.com/chemistry/aircomp.htm

Answer 1

How much arsenic are you willing to have in your drinking water?  0.01%?  0.1%?  3%?

You see, it's not necessarily the percentage of a substance that matters.  It's the effect.  And the CO2 in our atmosphere is clearly known to have a significant warming effect on our planet.

Answer 2

No, because carbon in the atmosphere isn't the cause of global warming or cooling.  Our oceans store vast amounts of carbon and as they warm due to solar activity, they release this carbon along with water vapor and vice versa.  It is the increase of water vapor that is causing the planet to warm.  Carbon in the atmosphere is a byproduct of warming, not the cause.  Besides, there have been studies which show a higher concentration of carbon in the atmosphere would actually be beneficial to plants.  I forget the actual estimated percentage of carbon, that vegetation on earth could handle, but it is quite a bit.

Answer 3

Yes it would matter.

Carbon dioxide, even in its small percentage of atmosphere, is a greenhouse gas that stops longwave radiation leaving the earth from the sun.

Doubling from the present 38- ppm would would see most of the current species eradicated from the earth.

I love John W's answer below, "Genesis", lol.

Answer 4

Good golly! You can't compare the sequestration process to arsenic, that's silly. There is a point of no return but that hasn't happen yet...and may never. As to date the filtration process is working as expected, you still have O2 levels that are ~normal. Don't go cashing in your life insurance policy just yet. (Keeling) had some unpublished studies that weren't accept through peer review about this subject.

http://www.ijtr.org/Vol3No1/Tsuchida_IJT...

Answer 5

The amount of man made CO2 is even less than the CO2 that is a natural occurrence on our planet.

This man made global warming because of CO2 is a joke. The computer models used to generate global warming models can't even accommodate rain fall and its effects on global cooling.

Anyone have any idea how hot the Earth would be without precipitation?

Answer 6

Pegminer and the like have answered this question, but I want to comment on the response by Adam C, who said:

"Doubling from the present 38- ppm would would see most of the current species eradicated from the earth."

No one could possibly know this at this point, and really you are just scaremongering. Sad.

Answer 7

We probably wouldn't notice the difference.

Answer 8

It is not how much there is, but what sort of an effect it produces that matters.  It is very effective at absorbing infrared radiation compared to the other gases on that pie chart (and water vapor is missing from that chart, by the way) so that its effect can be very pronounced in the Earth's climate.  By the same "there is so little argument" you could say that what would it matter if 0.000000000000001 % of your body weight consisted of anthrax spores, but that would be enough to kill you.

Answer 9

Yes.

Even a little CO2 will hold more solar heat in, warming the planet.  CO2 is powerful because it leverages the energy from the Sun.

Answer 10

Probably not.  According to Dr. Hovind, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere was extremely higher before the world-wide flood recorded in Genesis.  The climate was actually better for growing things than it is now back then.

Answer 11

"Catastrophic warming" relies on the notion of a runaway, spiraling or feedback effect, driven in part by less reflection of sunlight from polar ice caps (which would be smaller) but more by methane, a much stronger greenhouse gas, being released from bogs that are now permafrost, if these were to melt.

But, it's been warmer or, even by the AGW alarmists' charts, essentially as warm (within 0.2 C) in the past, for centuries at a time, and this runaway effect didn't happen.

Answer 12

Substances even in trace concentrations can have an impact.

Several products in less than ppm if injected in your body could kill you. So far for the equation

little for it = does not matter

Answer 13

maybe doubling would but at the current rate it would take 100 years for that to happen and I won't be around then so who really cares.  You don't really have to worry about CO2.  It is water vapor that would be the big problem, if global warming is real