Carbon Dioxide... a good thing?

[DGFone]

A recent solar storm hit the Earth, but I don't know how many of you noticed it. If you live far north or far south you got to see the Auroras, but other than that, despite the storm hitting the Earth with enough energy to power the city of New York for two years, most of that energy was bounced off back into space....

Because of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Nitric Oxide (NO).

We are all very familiar with the whole "CO2 heats up the planet" but new research is pointing more towards the two regulating the temperature, not simply increasing it. Does give a new perspective on the entire "global warming" issue, doesn't it?

Sources:
http://principia-scientific.org/support ... phere.html
http://monessasmontage.wordpress.com/ta ... satellite/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEFQHDSYP1I

[TheLionPrince]

This is interesting information. True, carbon dioxide does heat up the planet to an extent, but the absorbed carbon dioxide radiates heat back from the Earth towards outer space as infrared energy. Water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gasses in the Earth's atmosphere absorb some of the outgoing infrared energy, which heats them, which helps warms the planet.

Just wondering, what's your opinion on the fact that the carbon dioxide emissions produced from the U.S. has decreased while the emissions throughout the global is rising.

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This tidbit of information is interesting:

[quote="The New Scientist"]All this is happening against a backdrop of increasing global emissions, which rose to another record high in 2012. The IEA [International Energy Agency] estimates that burning fossil fuels emitted 31.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide last year – a 0.4 Gt increase over 2011. On current trends, the world will warm by 3°C by 2100.

It needn't be so. The IEA says the world can still limit warming to 2°C by boosting energy efficiency, limiting the building of the least efficient coal power plants, not venting methane at oil and gas fields, and cutting subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

The IEA calculates that to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2°C, about two-thirds of known fossil fuel reserves will have to be left in the ground.[/quote]

As for the topic, the evidence that CO2 acts as a cooling effect in the upper atmosphere is convincing.