The math of human GHG emissions
The Earth’s atmosphere is around 5×10^18 metric tons, or 5E18, give or take water vapor. The industrial output of the US in 2008 could be estimated to be around 8 billions tons. Let’s call it 10 billion. I saw another figure that the U.S. is responsible for 17% of all emissions worldwide. Lets call it 15%. So the total worldwide output of greenhouse gases is around 58.8 billion tons. Lets call it 60 billion.
60 billions tons of greenhouse gases amount to 1/83millionth of the atmosphere (5E18/6E10). To visualize this a little better, an Olympic swimming pool is 660,000 gallons. Our contribution to the “swimming pool” is 1.01 ounces per year. Despite my global-warming-alarmist-friendly numbers, rounding up every number along the way in their favor, we are contributing 1 ounce to an Olympic swimming pool (most community swimming pools are about 1/6th the size of an Olympic pool). What a joke. Al, your propaganda days are growing shorter.
I’m not sure about your math, I hope you are wrong. The Earth’s atmosphere is about 350 ppm CO2. If you are correct, we’ll double the C02 in a little more than four years.
So what if we do? Ice samples have shown Earth to have CO2 levels more than 10 times the current levels in the past, and the temperature was lower. You’re accepting the premise that CO2 is bad. CO2 is how plants survive. It is vital to Earth’s ecosystem.