E-mail to Congress:

The Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/climate-change/scientific-consensus-on.html) continues to push the ridiculous theory that carbon dioxide emissions, from burning fossil fuels, have a significant effect on global warming. They give 14 references, but I suggest you not bother to look them up. They're all based on "Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC, 2007".

If you go to that primary report (http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_TS.pdf), on to the Technical Summary, and then to page 23 on Greenhouse Gases, you will find a nice discussion of radiative forcing, increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ice core data, etc. The key point is you will find nothing with respect to any quantitative consideration of atmospheric carbon dioxide as a significant greenhouse gas affecting global warming.

What the IPCC report and all subsequent regurgitations miss is the following:
"Thermal conductivity is the ability to pass heat through a substance. The reverse is insulation. The lower the thermal conductivity of a gas, the less ability it has to pass heat and therefore allows heat to build up in a greenhouse effect. Thermal conductivity of air (assume 0% CO2} is 33.3 mW/m. For CO2, it is 25.1. Therefore, the greenhouse effect of pure CO2 versus pure air is 25% higher.

However, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is now accepted to be about 0.034%. At this concentration, the present carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, contributes to 0.0095% of all global warming (25 X 0.00034).

Another way to say it is that present carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere contributes 0.0095% more greenhouse effect than if there were no carbon dioxide. If we double the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 0.068%, the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect would still be only 0.019%. That would leave air contributing 99.981% to any total greenhouse effect."

I have presented that information more than a year ago. No one has come forth with a challenge. They continue to deal in supposition and innuendo.

I respectfully ask you to spread this information around, so that it can either be debated or used to give all climate control legislation involving carbon dioxide the indecent burial it deserves.