It is true that Kyoto targets 6 specific Greenhouse Gases, though CO2 is the most important, and has the strictest requirements. For reference, the total portion of ALL Greenhouse Gases that are due to human influence is 0.28%. The IPCC's prediction of a 0.07 degree change in global mean temperature over 45 years is including the influence of all 6 Kyoto-covered gases.
Without 'unneccessary, stupid gases' (sic) like CO2, every living thing on earth would die. CO2 is just as vital to plants as Oxygen is to humans. I got my scientific facts from the IPCC just like Kyoto did; they just don't present them this way because it's bad for their cause. If one of my statistics is in error please tell me what the correct number is.
-CO2 is not the most prevalent Greenhouse Gas, that title belongs to Water vapor at 95%
-CO2 makes up 3.618% of total Greenhouse Gases (H2O-95%,CO2-3.618%,CH4-0.36%,NO2-0.95%)
-85.22% of atmospheric CO2 comes from natural sources, 14.78% comes from man-made sources.
-Therefore man-made CO2 (targeted by Kyoto) represents only 0.117% of all atmospheric Greenhouse Gases.
-If every country on earth signs Kyoto, and everyone follows it perfectly, and everyone holds CO2 at those levels permanently even though Kyoto expires in 2012, then by 2050 Kyoto is expected to have altered the predicted global mean temperature by 0.07 degrees. (Less than the margin of error for measuring global mean temperature)
-The United States is a net carbon sink, i.e. it absorbs more CO2 than it produces every year.
OPINION: Kyoto has nothing to do with Global Warming, and everything to do with Global Politics. You can debate the political goals all you want, but trying to win that debate with a 'Save the Earth' argument is a fraud.
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It is true that Kyoto targets 6 specific Greenhouse Gases, though CO2 is the most important, and has the strictest requirements. For reference, the total portion of ALL Greenhouse Gases that are due to human influence is 0.28%. The IPCC's prediction of a 0.07 degree change in global mean temperature over 45 years is including the influence of all 6 Kyoto-covered gases.
Without 'unneccessary, stupid gases' (sic) like CO2, every living thing on earth would die. CO2 is just as vital to plants as Oxygen is to humans.
I got my scientific facts from the IPCC just like Kyoto did; they just don't present them this way because it's bad for their cause. If one of my statistics is in error please tell me what the correct number is.
FACTS:
-CO2 is not the most prevalent Greenhouse Gas, that title belongs to Water vapor at 95%
-CO2 makes up 3.618% of total Greenhouse Gases (H2O-95%,CO2-3.618%,CH4-0.36%,NO2-0.95%)
-85.22% of atmospheric CO2 comes from natural sources, 14.78% comes from man-made sources.
-Therefore man-made CO2 (targeted by Kyoto) represents only 0.117% of all atmospheric Greenhouse Gases.
-If every country on earth signs Kyoto, and everyone follows it perfectly, and everyone holds CO2 at those levels permanently even though Kyoto expires in 2012, then by 2050 Kyoto is expected to have altered the predicted global mean temperature by 0.07 degrees. (Less than the margin of error for measuring global mean temperature)
-The United States is a net carbon sink, i.e. it absorbs more CO2 than it produces every year.
OPINION:
Kyoto has nothing to do with Global Warming, and everything to do with Global Politics. You can debate the political goals all you want, but trying to win that debate with a 'Save the Earth' argument is a fraud.