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Originally Posted by bobwebster
Yes. CO2 captures more heat than O2. We use O2 and release CO2 when we breathe or burn. Maybe it's a minute difference, maybe not. Maybe it's natural, maybe not. But the fact is that people do contribute to global warming.
And I haven't even brought up farting.
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I think we'll have to consider the chicken and the egg here. Is it that CO2 "captures" more heat or might it be that warmer air holds more CO2? I think that an examination of the partial pressure of gases will reveal the latter. which would then lead to the possibility that elevated CO2 levels within the atmosphere are not strictly the cause of the temperature rise but the result of a temperature rise.
I'd think that these questions might call for some further examination. Of course, it wasn't that long ago, at least to me, that President Reagan was panned for remarking upon the tremendous amount of CO2 "pollution" emitted by trees. Amongst the responses of the green movement, it was difficult to tell if they deciphered the tongue in cheek statement.