Carbon dioxide is presently 380 parts per million or one molecule of every 3883 while the next most common gas is water vapor with one molecule of every 20. Water vapor absorbs infrared heat radiation four times better than CO2, molecule for molecule which means it is responsible for 99.9% of all atmospheric heating. CO2 is only responsible for 0.1% and insignificant as a greenhouse gas, but it is in all fuels, can be controlled and taxed hence the elected class is very interested in it. The atmosphere appears to be an ...

Carbon dioxide is presently 380 parts per million or one molecule of every 3883 while the next most common gas is water vapor with one molecule of every 20. Water vapor absorbs infrared heat radiation four times better than CO2, molecule for molecule which means it is responsible for 99.9% of all atmospheric heating. CO2 is only responsible for 0.1% and insignificant as a greenhouse gas, but it is in all fuels, can be controlled and taxed hence the elected class is very interested in it. The atmosphere appears to be an open system and able to expand like a balloon into space, but gravity renders it a finite, closed system and the principles of Le Chatelier prevail. As more CO2 is released water vapor precipitates because it is normally a liquid at Earth temperature. This will result in a cooling effect. The most likely future for us is an ice age, not a steambath.