budgenator's Journal: Global warming hoax

I've often found all of the glum and doom prophecies about the increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere to be a bit unbelieveble. Finally I decided to do a bunch of googling for reputable website about the role of CO2 in the atmosphere and global warming. The results are interesting, currently a program called MODTRAN is the best software for modeling the effects of GHG, Green House Gasses, on Infrared transmission through the atmosphere. This software was developed for the DOD to aid in IR sattelite imagery. It shows the CO2 has the most effect from 0 to 10 ppm and the increased effect falls off rapidly. Very little increase in IR absorbtion is shown when CO2 is varied between 100ppm and 1000ppm, we are presently at the ~360ppm level. In short I still see only the vaguest relationship between the increase in CO2 levels and global warming.

Other gasses like Methane, and Nitrous Oxide, have much more potent effects on heat retention of the planet; but significant natural mechanisms exist to remove these gasses from the atmosphere. The halogenated hydrocarbons have an extremely potent effect on heat retention, but we have decided to allow the usage of the worst of these in third world countries that have the least ability to properly handle them.

If people are really worried about global warming the single most effective thing that could be done is to return to ammonia based refrigerant systems, followed by agressive reduction of hydrocarbon emmisions, not worrying about CO2