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Here's a clue, guy: when one gallon of gas (which weighs less than ten pounds) is burned, it generates about 20 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. There's about a half billion cars operating in the world today, and if each one uses about a ten-gallon tank of gas per week (and I think I'm being conservative on that one), do the math - that's about 100 billion pounds of CO2 added to our atmosphere.
Per week.
From cars alone, not counting what comes from factories, power plants, ships, trains, planes, and the methane from cattle. Add to that all the deforestation that's taken place over the past couple centuries - which detracts from our planet's ability to absorb the CO2...
...and frankly, guy, I would say the onus is on AGW deniers to prove that what we're adding to the atmosphere does not cause global warming. 97% of climate scientists are satisfied that it's proven, every single national science foundation on the planet are satisfied that it's proven, 90% of all other scientists are satisfied that it's proven...and every single alternate excuse offered by the AGW deniers has been handily disproved and debunked.
But I guess I'm just wasting my time, since it's SO much more important to the Big Oil-funded Right to protect their Big Oil sugar daddy than it is to listen to the overwhelming majority of the scientific community - most of which gets NO additional funding because of their research into AGW.
Yes, Big Oil bought me off. I get a free car wash after every ten visits.
Read what happens to the skeptics! Bengtsson Burners :: SteynOnline