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Summary of the facts of global warming.

  • Burning fossil fuels and increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans is not a good thing to be doing.

  • Additional carbon dioxide will endanger ocean fisheries by destabilizing the calcium carbonate in marine organisms at the base of the ocean food chain.

  • Reducing the atmosperic carbon dioxide level to the pre-industrial level will have only a small effect on global warming.

  • Methane (CH4) can have very little effect on global warming (see Fig. 12 in Wijngaarden and Happer) because the Earth emits very little radiation at the frequencies that methane blocks.


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