Ajax wrote on Sep 15
th, 2013 at 7:10pm:
To all that may read these global warming religious silly inclinations as to why the glaciers and arctic are melting.
Just google it and you will find that the arctic and glaciers started melting about 200 years ago.
It had nothing to do with the miniscule amount of CO2 that man throws up into the atmosphere.
The alarmists who control this forum aren't interested in analysing the science of both sides they only want to scare the sh!t out of people into backing their religion.
Sure man's small and miniscule amount of CO2 probably has played a small and miniscule part in the warming we have observed.
But these AGW zealots are blaming all the warming on man's CO2 emissions.
Even though we are coming out of a mini ice age.
How can you take these people seriously......?????
As usual, baseless assertions with no data to back them up. Where's your data?
I've already shown a correlation coefficient of 0.86 for the past 50 years data showing a strong correlation between CO2 and Global mean surface temperatures.
How do you suppose that we measure the concentration of gases in the atmosphere? Usually an instrument called a Long Path Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectrometer is used. Of course there are many other methods that can be used, but the readings agree very closely.
We measure gas concentrations, including CO2 using Infrared radiation. It's not theoretical. It's a well established practical measurement. It is established beyond the shadow of a doubt that carbon dioxide absorbs in the Long Wave Infrared, and the extent at which it absorbs. Radiative Forcing can be measured.
I don't expect you to understand that Ajax, but hopefully others will.