First of all, you point to a True Believer's efforts to 'explain a technical article' to lay people.  You do not point to Skakun's article or his conclusions.  I am just commenting on this as wrong, and unnecessary, and clearly biased.  You've pointed to an article that asserts "Co2 is the principal control knob governing the Earth's temperature" - not Skakun, dude.

Neither you or Anonymint has an arguable point.  He would argue that the Religious Warmer's co2/lag argument is "this time it's different", which is not impossible but a recognized logical problem.  You'd argue that "no it's been different before, too".  Neither of you has a sound basis for predictive capability based on presented or available arguments and knowledge of historical CO2 and temperature lag or lead.

Now go prove it with tree rings.  Or whale bones.  Or tree lines at altitude.  Oxygen isotope.  Sediment.  Venus.   

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