the facts about global warming

[jason_85]

(02-24-2010 12:44 PM)Richard111 Wrote:  jason_85, you say this with confidence I think:

Quote:Those IR bands make a huge potential contribution. It's also the gas causing the most radiative forcing due to hour emissions (in terms of global warming potential * man made emissions).

I am keen to learn how this increase in radiative forcing happens because of increasing man made emissions.

As far as I can make out those IR bands, specific to CO2, cannot penetrate very far into the atmosphere. It seems my belief, obviously misguided, is that increasing CO2 makes no difference to radiative forcing.

I just wrote an article on the effect of carbon dioxide on radiative forcing, I hope it answers your questions. If not please let me know and I'll try to improve the article