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I see many people here arguing the greenhouse effects and quoting Venus as an example and I can not but conclude these people have no idea what warms our planet. Fist off, Venus is still a heavily active volcanic planet with an atmosphere where the greenhouse gasses dominate. On Venus CO2 comprises 96%+ of the atmosphere, with some other real nasty crap to boot to fill in the gap, because this is what the volcanoes spew into the atmosphere constantly. On Earth these supposed greenhouse gasses that permeate Venus and make it hell show up as trace amounts in our atmosphere. For those that do not understand the meaning of the word “trace” that means we are often talking insignificant amounts in parts per million or billion. The most abundant greenhouse gas on Earth is water vapor. Earth’s atmospheric CO2 content is so low that for all intents and purposes it can be ignored when compared to any effect that would be had by the water vapor. But the largest amount of energy, that which actually affects the Earth’s temperature and weather, is not trapped in the atmospheric gasses at all but in our oceans. And the energy trapped is from the sun. Of course, as soon as you acknowledge that the engine that drives our climate and weather are the sun and the oceans, you lose that whole AGW argument. If the sun and oceans are the primary and real climate drivers, you lose the ability to blame people and claim a catastrophic event will come about unless people allow this new priesthood to enact global collectivism and control all our lives.

As long as the proponents of AGW ignore the sun and our oceans when talking climate, to push these idiotic arguments about how the real issues are the greenhouse gasses – especially when what they blame the problem on, CO2, is measured in parts per million and completely insignificant – man makes, we are being taken for a ride. Just do a simple experiment. Boil some water on a stove (this represents the sun adding energy to our oceans) and time the boiling point. Now repeat and while the water is getting heated blow some hot breath at the water and see how much faster you can make the water boil. My bet is that unless you like to fudge the data like all these AGW pseudo-scientists, there will be no difference.

These global collectivist doomsayers first told us it would be world famine, then another ice age in the 70s, and finally they told us it was AGW over the last 2 decades that would kill us. That was unless we let them do what they wanted. None of these have worked and where sooner or later exposed as bogus. Soon they will move on to some other catastrophe in the making, but the solution will be again the same collectivist pap. Make fun of them because ridicule is all they deserve.