Quote from: protokol on January 04, 2017, 09:56:27 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on January 04, 2017, 06:41:03 AM

Quote from: protokol on January 04, 2017, 05:43:17 AM

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What is your explanation for the uniquely extreme increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, never seen before, and it's correlation to the extreme rise in surface temperature over the last 50-100 years? Coincidence?

CO2 lags temp. The temp increase took a pause from about 20 years ago and CO2 is catching up. Nothing especially mysterious about it, and nothing especially scary about 400 parts per million...it's still a trace gas and we are in geological terms at very low concentrations. In trace concentrations it is easier for large percentage swings to occur. Plants are much happier now.

Read my post again, I addressed the CO2 lag:

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I understand that the Earth's temperature has fluctuated a lot more in the past than it is now, but never with the same correlation of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
I also understand that the concentration of CO2 has often lagged behind the temperature changes in the past, but as I understand it this is a two way street - if the CO2 concentration gets too high, too quickly, it can certainly cause warming and a feedback loop. Just because this hasn't happened in the past doesn't mean it isn't happening now.

This article gives a solid case for why it might not be as simple as "CO2 lags temperature, therefore CO2 cannot cause a rise in temperature" : https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature-intermediate.htm

Pffft. skepticalscience.com is a joke. Even their name. Typical carbon-tax scammers in all ways, and especially in their leaning on censorship to cover for their lack of 'science'. I find Murry Salby to be much more rigorous and credible.