User talk:Bruce Frykman
This entire entry begs to be re-written
To being any discussion of atmospheric CO2 wiht this:
Despite its relatively small overall concentration, CO2 is a potent greenhouse gas and plays a vital role in regulating Earth's surface temperature through radiative forcing and the greenhouse effect: CO2 absorbs and emits infrared radiation at wavelengths of 4.26 µm (asymmetric stretching vibrational mode) and 14.99 µm (bending vibrational mode). [1]
Smacks of agenda driven propaganda.
CO2 is not in fact "a potent" greenhouse gas" is not true. Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect. Interestingly, many "facts and figures" regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).
Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.
Thus the assertion that it " plays a vital role in regulating Earth's surface temperature through radiative forcing and the greenhouse effect" is merely a unwarrented, unproven myth that is now being challenged on many fronts. The fact that this assumption supports a radical restructuring of our political and economic freedoms is nowhere mentioned as "significant bias"
Regarding:
"The recent phenomenon of global warming has been attributed primarily to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Earth's atmosphere."
I was unaware that "global warming" or cooling was a recent phenomenon and just who is doing this attribution?
This article is complete propaganda, not information.