❌ Posts misleadingly claim human-caused CO2 emissions are too small to warm planet
The line on"trace gases" appears to have been taken verbatim from thisBut it omitted the part immediately following the"trace gases" information, where NASA explains the warming impact of CO2 and other trace greenhouse gases: nitrous oxide, methane and ozone.
"So CO2 is a minor constituent of the atmosphere. Despite that, it has a big effect on planetary temperature because it absorbs infra-red heat radiation," saidThe IPCC's major climate science report in 2021 contains a detailedA graph on page 713 shows how different gases contribute to"radiative forcing" -- the process in which more heat from the sun enters the Earth's atmosphere than leaves it.
"The earlier article also does a totally bizarre calculation to get the result that 3 percent of the CO2 is due to humans," he added.
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