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[–]Davethe_blank_ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

CO2 is not prevalent enough, nor will it ever be enough to be a driver of the temperature due to greenhouse gas effect. Water vapor already absorbs the same spectrums.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

CO2 is not prevalent enough,

Really. How much CO2 do you claim it would take to raise the temperature by 3°C?

You know, given science estimates about a doubling.

nor will it ever be enough to be a driver of the temperature due to greenhouse gas effect. Water vapor already absorbs the same spectrums.

Exactly? Wow.

So when the James Webb telescope detected CO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39 b, already known to have water in it, they just lied, because the CO2 would be masked by the water!

And when you look at an absorbance spectrum of the atmosphere, and you see that CO2 main absorption around 4.3 microns doesnt overlap with water at all, and that it fills in the weak absorption of water between about 13 and 17 microns, what do people like you see?

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6c88e20a95b9388752c995f911591be6-pjlq

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    [–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I see almost all the same areas being covered by water that CO2 does.

    Do you see how CO2 plugs some of the holes?

    4.3 and 13-17 microns?

    ... And you think that no one modelling or measuring absorbance of the atmosphere has noticed?

    [–]Davethe_blank_ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I see almost all the same areas being covered by water that CO2 does. Of course there are small areas of wavelengths that CO2 absorb that water doesn't. But CO2 is .05% of the atmosphere. And STFU about mass spectrometry, you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

    [–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    And STFU about mass spectrometry,

    Wow. I had no idea that there were people who thought mass spectrometry was the same thing as absorbance spectrometry.

    Is it because the word "spectrometry" appears in both?

    you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

    Oh, the irony.