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Atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming

A favorite canard of climate change denialist trolls is to trivialize the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; how could something that is only 0.04% of the atmosphere drive global warming? Well, Google is your friend: “About 99 percent of the atmosphere is made of oxygen and nitrogen, which cannot absorb the infrared radiation […]