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I just wondered if it's really the CO², maybe we just generate too much heat in general and that's what's warming the planet? Charging the phone, phone heats up

I just wondered if it's really the CO², maybe we just generate too much heat in general and that's what's warming the planet? Charging the phone, phone heats up, having the laptop up -> heat. All the household appliances generate heat. Germany. There was this one or two days in usa where no airplanes were flying(after 9/11) and the temperature over there dropped by 1-2 degrees.

Bayart 7y ago
The amount of heat we generate doesn't register compared to the sun.
- autisticmind 7y ago
  No because the different jetfuels, crated an atmosphere full of chemistry. Many hydrocarbons, olefins, aromatics...can form into wax crystals, (also other stuff) As i read about it, i knew that the waves will not be reflected, and we have a layer like a lense in the air. A lense wich is not reflecting back, but more easy trouh the cloudlayer.
nstom 7y ago
We generate a lot of heat, but so does the sun by shining on half of the earth's surface. That should not be a problem however, since it goes back into space in the form of infrared beams. The natural greenhouse effect obstructs just enough of those beams to keep our planet at a stable temperature that life has had plenty of time to adjust to. Now that the greenhouse effect has been artificially enhanced by adding lots of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, more infrared beams (from the sun, but probably also some from human activity) are kept in the atmosphere and so it warms. So ultimately, the sun is just vastly more powerful than human activity, and any excess heat would be emitted into space if it weren't for the artificially raised greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
autisticmind 7y ago
See my answear, all people i try to talk about, think im crazy, when i say co2 is not co2, but im not! I am maybe autistic, thats all. There are a lot of different co2. Click link in my answear and see.
jacquesm 7y ago
The sun irradiates the planet with about 1,000 W / Square meter, the area irradiated is always about half of the planet, with the amount of light reflected for any given spot corresponding to the co-sine of the angle at which the light hits. In a given hour - taking into account the albedo of the earth, 0.31 - the earth soaks up more sun than the world as a whole consumes in a year. So yes, we are generating a lot of heat, but compared to what the sun does it is not a factor.

Bayart 7y ago

The amount of heat we generate doesn't register compared to the sun.

autisticmind 7y ago
No because the different jetfuels, crated an atmosphere full of chemistry. Many hydrocarbons, olefins, aromatics...can form into wax crystals, (also other stuff) As i read about it, i knew that the waves will not be reflected, and we have a layer like a lense in the air. A lense wich is not reflecting back, but more easy trouh the cloudlayer.

nstom 7y ago

We generate a lot of heat, but so does the sun by shining on half of the earth's surface. That should not be a problem however, since it goes back into space in the form of infrared beams. The natural greenhouse effect obstructs just enough of those beams to keep our planet at a stable temperature that life has had plenty of time to adjust to. Now that the greenhouse effect has been artificially enhanced by adding lots of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, more infrared beams (from the sun, but probably also some from human activity) are kept in the atmosphere and so it warms. So ultimately, the sun is just vastly more powerful than human activity, and any excess heat would be emitted into space if it weren't for the artificially raised greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

autisticmind 7y ago

See my answear, all people i try to talk about, think im crazy, when i say co2 is not co2, but im not! I am maybe autistic, thats all. There are a lot of different co2. Click link in my answear and see.

jacquesm 7y ago

The sun irradiates the planet with about 1,000 W / Square meter, the area irradiated is always about half of the planet, with the amount of light reflected for any given spot corresponding to the co-sine of the angle at which the light hits. In a given hour - taking into account the albedo of the earth, 0.31 - the earth soaks up more sun than the world as a whole consumes in a year. So yes, we are generating a lot of heat, but compared to what the sun does it is not a factor.