(02-24-2025, 01:42 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: They probably didn't mention the O2 expelled by all the new robust plant growth or that water vapor is a worse greenhouse gas when compared to CO2.
Indeed. During the Carboniferous that I mentioned in my post, O2 levels were at 35% or so of the atmosphere, as opposed to the current 21% - almost 175% of current oxygen levels. One result of that was that wildfires were more common,and more volatile and dangerous, due to the increase in oxygen. Another result was that insects got much larger, with cockroaches between 8" and a foot long, dragonflies with 3 foot wingspans, and a centipede or millipede named "Arthropleura" that reached lengths of 8 feet or so.
The "carbon crew" can't make any money on water vapor, because it is so volatile that it can disappear into either water or ice, negating it's value to them as a taxable commodity. That is a disability that CO2 doesn't have, since it sticks around a little longer. In other words, they cannot fear monger well enough on water vapor, but they can on CO2, despite the stronger greenhouse effect of water vapor.
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