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The basis of global warming/climate change/human Armageddon is, they claim, a “rapid increase” in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide worldwide caused by humans burning fossil fuels. An annual increase of 1.3 parts per million, on the greenhouse gas base of 15,500 parts per million, is not a “rapid increase.” The Scary Graph below was drawn in this manner to evoke emotion, not reason, not fact. It shows only carbon dioxide.
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Science should not mislead, but mislead the Scary Graph (Keeling Curve) does, here and now, and very badly. Fraud is the criminal act of intentionally misleading others to take their money.
Water is by far the dominant greenhouse gas, not carbon dioxide. Adding just the 1.5% water component (1.5% of 1,000,000 is 15,000) flattens the scary graph curve more than any of the other preceding factors.
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Atmospheric water vapor + carbon dioxide total 15,500 parts per million, at the top of this graph. Total carbon dioxide, natural and anthropogenic, are the red line at bottom.
It must be noted that the infrared spectrum of water vapor is very similar to that of carbon dioxide. In other words, they absorb infrared radiation (heat) at similar rates and over a strikingly similar range of the spectrum, water vapor being the more potent of the two gases, qualitatively but especially quantitatively, based on its ratio of 15,000 ppmv, versus 410 ppmv. Note how trivial is the annual CO2 increase of a scant 1.3 ppmv, of which humans produce less than 4%. Do the math of 4% x 1.3 ppm divided by 15,500 and tell everyone how this result is so terrifying and deadly.....
It is also important on WHERE the absorption rate is since Water Vapor dominates in the equatorial regions of the world by it high volume, where the most direct solar radiation is located. CO2 dominates in the polar regions where it has far less solar radiation and at a much steeper angle to being partly reflected off the surface.