It seems like cap and trade is going to enter the discussion phase.

The true root of this is policy is simply dollars in the US treasury.  However, the tool being used to hammer things through is the increase in CO2 caused by man and the claim that unless this is reduced, the planet is doomed.  To say that the argument lacks any use of the scientific method would be this years greatest understatement.  I am a person of science.  Any threat that is being used to change our entire way of life and that will subject our economy to a crippling taxes should, at the very least, stand up under analysis by anyone using the scientific method.  It simply does not.  Period.

Why not?  Honestly, the amount of CO2 generated by man, is so infinitesimal that it has, for all intents and purposes, zero effect on the atmosphere.  But, how to explain this so folks can wrap their heads around it.  I have been toying with that for some time and settled on using a small local lake as an example.

Within a mile of my home there is a small 150 acre county park.  Within it is a 22 acre lake.  The question I asked myself is:  How many gallons of lake water would represent the amount of CO2 generated by man in the atmosphere.  The following is my logic and math.  Any and all are certainly welcome to check my numbers.

Square Feet per Acre	43,560.00
Acres in Rogers Lake	22.00
Average Depth Rogers Lake	9.00
Cubic Feet in Rogers Lake	8,624,880.00
Gallons per Cubic Foot	7.48
Estimated Gallons in Rogers Lake	64,514,102.40

 

Composition of Atmosphere		Gallon In Rogers Lake
Nitrogen	78.0800000%	50,372,611.15
Oxygen	20.0500000%	12,935,077.53
Water	1.0000000%	645,141.02
Argon	0.9300000%	599,981.15
Carbon Dioxide	0.0360000%	23,225.08
Neon	0.0018000%	1,161.25
Helium	0.0005000%	322.57
Methane	0.0001700%	109.67
Hydrogen	0.0000500%	32.26
Nitrous Oxide	0.0000300%	19.35
Ozone	0.0000040%	2.58
	100.09855%	64,577,683.63

 

Carbon Dioxide Levels	Pre Industrial	Natural Addition	Man Made Additions	Total
(in parts per billion)	288,888.00	68,520.00	11,880.00	369,288.00
Percentage of each	78%	19%	3%
Percentage of Atmosphere CO2 due to man	0.0011581%
Gallons in Rogers Lake equal to CO2 due to man	747.15

So, were our little lake the earth's atmosphere, of the 64,514,102.40 gallons contained in the lake, only 747 gallons would represent the man-made CO2 in our atmosphere.  Just on the face of it, the claim that this small increase is dooming our planet is ludicrous.  What the MSM is not pointing out is that thousands of scientists were either not on the global warming bandwagon or have jumped off.  To place our economy in jeopardy over this farce is perhaps the single most un-American action of the American Left and the Big "O".