28-04-2013, 10:02 PM
Greg Burnham Wrote:[
Only problem is that in each instance of temperature increase, including the most recent, temperatures began rising PRIOR to CO2 levels. This is DOCUMENTED and those scientists who originally had it backwards have recanted. Perhaps increased temperature is caused by natural cycles (solar and oceanic), which in turn CAUSES an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere--not the other way around. The pattern of increased heat followed by increased atmospheric CO2 is not speculation, but fact.
There's less wallop in that argument than might appear. Most scientists knew the ice core samples showed CO2 rose after temperature. However this begs the obvious question of what will happen when you have an unprecedented spike in CO2 as we do now? This is playing Russian Roulete with big stakes.
The flaw in your argument is it doesn't give due heed to the straight Greenhouse Effect that is a valid scientific phenomenon and will raise temperatures on its own as it is mostly likely presently recorded doing. So in a way you are kind of conflating long term cooling and warming cycles with the separate phenomenon of the Greenhouse Effect. What you really have to worry about is an unnaturally influenced triggering of an out of cycle warming event that gets exacerbated by an unprecedented amount of existing CO2 that unloads trapped arctic CO2 into the atmosphere in an explosive Global Warming event.
Unfortunately the cycle timing argument doesn't get us off the hook.
