All:
I refuse to debate with the childish fool who writes under the pseudonym ‘Boris’. His boorish rants, insults and slurs warrant derision and not answers. And his cowardice in presenting these personal attacks while hiding behind a pseudonym is clear for all to see.
However, in his most recent rant he suggests that I claim carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas (GHG). It is not surprising that he makes such a silly suggestion, because he knows that all I have written in this forum is correct and that it is simple to check the truth of my statements. So, he hopes to deflect readers from checking these matters for themselves by suggesting I claim other than I do.
Let us be clear. Carbon dioxide is a GHG. Water vapour is the major GHG and accounts for more than half of the greenhouse effect. The other greenhouse gases are known as trace greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is the major trace greenhouse gas and is responsible for almost half of their radiative effect.
Does the fact that carbon dioxide is the major trace Greenhouse gas mean that increased carbon dioxide in the air will increase global temperature to a significant or a detectable degree? No, it does not, although that remote possibility does exist.
At issue is how the climate system would respond to an increase to carbon dioxide in the air. The climate system is more complex than the human brain. Whenever anybody claims to know the future state of the climate system then ask them to make an easier prediction such as what you will be thinking tomorrow or next week. If they cannot predict that, then there is no possibility that they can predict the state of the climate system in the next decade or the next century.
However, I suspect that everybody knows what I think of ‘Boris’ whomever or whatever he/she/it may be.
Richard
