Originally Posted by
Fonz121
I don't buy the argument that carbon dioxide is so insignificant...
The world's global average surface temperature has risen about 0.8 degrees in the last 130 years. Most of this in the last few decades (according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies)...
You missed those three important words. The world's surface temperature ranges from -50°C to +50°C - your comparison with the human body is flawed.
edited to add, the global average temperature cannot have been measured over the last 130 years - only
estimated! Now, it was less than a degree you were talking about, wasn't it?
edited again to add, if you boosted the natural land and vegetation absorption of CO2 by only 6%, you'd
completely wipe out the effect of
all man-made emissions of CO2 and equivalents.