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Originally Posted by Private_collector
Might be something in this global warming business.
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Don't worry Tony, the mad monk assures me that climate change is crap. Mind you, I suspect he failed Climate Science 101:
"To a certain extent the temperature of the earth's surface is conditioned by the properties of the atmosphere surrounding it, and particularly by the permeability of the latter for the rays of heat. If the quantity of carbon dioxide in the air should sink to one-half its present percentage, the temperature would fall by about 4°; on the other hand, any doubling of the percentage of carbon dioxide in the air would raise the temperature of the earth's surface by 4°. The enormous combustion of coal by our industrial establishments suffices to increase the percentage of CO2 in the air to a perceptible degree. Although the sea, by absorbing CO2, acts as a regulator of huge capacity, which takes up about five-sixths of the produced CO2, we yet recognize that the slight percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere may by the advances of industry be changed to a noticeable degree in the course of a few centuries." Svante Arrhenius, 1896.
(atmospheric CO2 circa 1900: 280 ppm. Presently: 400 ppm and rising)