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Information from Wikipedia (just some general info.)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect.^[1] The main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. In our solar system, the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and Titan also contain gases that cause greenhouse effects. Greenhouse gases greatly affect the temperature of the Earth; without them, Earth's surface would be on average about 33°C (59°F) colder than at present... 

...Water vapor is also a potent greenhouse gas.

In order, Earth's most abundant greenhouse gases are:

• water vapor

• carbon dioxide

• methane

• nitrous oxide

• ozone

• CFCs

GHG Discussion Source:   http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

The above cited source has some great comparison charts.  When Al Gore's buddies make their calculations they conveniently leave out the contribution of water vapor as a greenhouse gas.  Remember that water vapor is the first on the list (the most important) from the Wikipedia article referenced in the previous section.  In other words... to believe Al's pet theory you have to throw objective science under the bus and and cook the books to come up with his radical conclusions.  Sorry Al, science strikes again...

CO2 is less than 4% of all greenhouse gasses.   Of all of the CO2 in the atmosphere only 3% is cause by man.

There are two important undisputable facts:

1) Man can do nothing to change the major greenhouse gas (water vapor).  Water vapor is 95% of the picture.

2) CO2 caused by mankind is only about about 1/10 of one percent of all greenhouse gasses (if I have my math right).  With cap-and-trade in place proponents admit that we will be able to lower CO2 by a small fraction of output.

Question:  If we totally eliminated man-caused CO2 would it make any difference to "global warming"?

Anthropogenic (man-made) Contribution to the "Greenhouse
Effect," expressed as % of Total (water vapor INCLUDED)

The Kyoto Protocol calls for mandatory carbon dioxide reductions of 30% from developed countries like the U.S. Reducing man-made CO2 emissions this much would have an undetectable effect on climate while having a devastating effect on the U.S. economy. Can you drive your car 30% less, reduce your winter heating 30%? Pay 20-50% more for everything from automobiles to zippers? And that is just a down payment, with more sacrifices to come later.

Such drastic measures, even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about 0.035%.

This is much less than the natural variability of Earth's climate system!

While the greenhouse reductions would exact a high human price, in terms of sacrifices to our standard of living, they would yield statistically negligible results in terms of measurable impacts to climate change. There is no expectation that any statistically significant global warming reductions would come from the Kyoto Protocol.

" There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "