give me some thoughts to what you think.
2007-11-04 07:24:50 · 5 answers · asked by In Fungus Wii Trust 1776 6 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Nope not much.
But melting ice caps will disrupt the global ocean currents that might drastically change the climate in the world but it won't put that much of any CO2 into the air.
2007-11-04 08:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ Pompey and The Red Devils! 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Very little, if any, and so it's not important.
What is important is that melting land based permafrost in the Arctic may release large amounts of methane, making global warming much worse, faster.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060906-methane.html
EDIT water vapor is important for the greenhouse effect, but not for starting global warming. The reason is that excess water vapor falls out as precipitation in hours, excess CO2 stays there for years. More here:
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11652
2007-11-04 15:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
CO2 amounts to a measly 3% of anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gases in the earths atmosphere. Much more important are the concentration and distribution of water vapor and clouds which make up most of our atmosphere.
Methane only makes up 0.00017% (1.7 parts per million by volume) of the the atmosphere which is what your source aluudes to.
2007-11-04 16:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by Smiley 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not much! The Co2 is mostly caused from moving cars with its emission of smorg combined with oxygen.
2007-11-08 07:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by Dye dirt Kong 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, i think that china and japan cutting the trees in south america do more damage
2007-11-05 19:36:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋