How Much Will The Cap And Trade Legislation Help Global Warming?

4 Responses to “How Much Will The Cap And Trade Legislation Help Global Warming?”

1. TNVolunteer73 writes
   July 10th, 2009 4:04 pm

   Little or None.

   only 3% of Green house gases are man made, 97% are natural

   http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

   Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases

   The chart at left summarizes the % of greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere from Table 1. This is not a very meaningful view though because 1) the data has not been corrected for the actual Global Warming Potential (GWP) of each gas, and 2) water vapor is ignored.

   But these are the numbers one would use if the goal is to exaggerate human greenhouse contributions:

   Man-made and natural carbon dioxide (CO2) comprises 99.44% of all greenhouse gas concentrations (368,400 / 370,484 )–(ignoring water vapor).

   Also, from Table 1 (but not shown on graph):

   Anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 additions comprise (11,880 / 370,484) or 3.207% of all greenhouse gas concentrations, (ignoring water vapor).

   Total combined anthropogenic greenhouse gases comprise (12,217 / 370,484) or 3.298% of all greenhouse gas concentrations, (ignoring water vapor).

2. Tom Paine writes
   July 10th, 2009 7:52 pm

   So, let me get this straight, TNVolunteer73, global warming may not be man made, so therefore we should do nothing?

   You’ve demonstrated very ably that you can cut and paste data from a blog out of West Virginia (yeah, no global warming opponents there, eh?), but you can argue global warming doesn’t exist (even the Bush Administration didn’t agree with you there) or that its not our fault (in which case, we face the growing costs of carbon emissions anyway) which doesn’t bode well for our future either.

   You environmental Luddites sure spend a lot of time and energy vilifying a piece of legislation that’s cost to cost us an average of about $175 bucks a year.

   I think your silence on topics like the Iraq War and the implosion of our financial system cost us way more than that.

3. Rachid writes
   July 11th, 2009 4:26 am

   Human being is destroying himself by his own hands: http://inspirationwriting.blogspot.com/2009/07/scientific-studies-showed-where-there.html

4. Glen Dean writes
   July 11th, 2009 7:10 pm

   I really don’t see how any “legislation” can affect the sun. Therefore this question is well, stupid.