@deepthought said
Think about what you're writing for pities sake. You've highlighted: "CO2 is not the only player, that's well established." from wildgrass's post. As an easy reference the Wikipedia page on radiative forcing [1] has a diagram on the right of the page next to the section on IPCC usage which shows the various contributions to radiative forcing of the environment. It is c ...[text shortened]... g people of lying when they patently are not.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing
I had seen this link several times before but somehow failed to notice that it gives REAL DATA that, without being pedantic and thus not considering the absurd possibility of a vast global mass conspiracy by all scientists to fake vast amounts of data for no reason whatsoever, proves not only CO2 is a greenhouse gas but also proves its the main one in the sense that, out of all of them EXCLUDING water vapor ("EXCLUDING water vapor" because although water vapor is a greenhouse gas, the more water vapor the more clouds to reflect sunlight thus difficult to say if it has an overall net warming or cooling effect), its contributing the most to the greenhouse warming effect.
The link says;
"...The table below (derived from atmospheric radiative transfer models) shows changes in radiative forcing between 1979 and 2016.[19] The table includes the contribution to radiative forcing from carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O); chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 12 and 11; and fifteen other minor, long-lived, halogenated gases.
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(large data table shown here)
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The table shows that CO2 dominates the total forcing, with methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) becoming relatively smaller contributors to the total forcing over time.[19] The five major greenhouse gases account for about 96% of the direct radiative forcing by long-lived greenhouse gas increases since 1750.
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Most of this increase is related to CO2. For 2013, the AGGI was 1.34 (representing an increase in total direct radiative forcing of 34% since 1990). The increase in CO2 forcing alone since 1990 was about 46%.
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Completely conclusive to anyone using more than one brain cell or any normal person not with crazed delusions and not particularly lacking in intellect.