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A 1.5 ° increase is a 0.5% increase in temperature if you measure the temperature in Kelvin. There is hardly any discrepancy in scale. A 12x multiplier is not t
by imtringued 3y ago
A 1.5 ° increase is a 0.5% increase in temperature if you measure the temperature in Kelvin. There is hardly any discrepancy in scale. A 12x multiplier is not that surprising once you consider that oxygen and nitrogen don't have a greenhouse effect and thus we are speaking of 0.04% out of 1% of gases that might have a greenhouse effect.
Both the concentration and effect of CO2 are small but since human life has a limited temperature band, even a 1.5°C increase does matter.
And so far I have just been applying some commonsense to your number comparison logic. I didn't even have to understand the basic mechanisms of how it works, just that there might be some effect.