Perhaps you should google “CO2 800 years.” Did you know that temperature goes up prior to a rise in CO2?

Here’s what happened. Scientists examined ice cores, and found that there was a slight lag between the increase in CO2 concentrations and an increase in temperatures at the end of an ice age. Temps came first. Keep in mind, this is way before man produced carbon dioxide through industrial activity. So, the process that was found was that through changes in the earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble (Milankovitch Cycles), the earth began to warm. As the earth warmed, carbon dioxide that was trapped in the cold oceans began to be released, which increased the atmospheric concentrations of the gas, further enhancing the warming effect.

Then, yahoos on the right latched onto this as “proof” that CO2 lags temperature, despite the obvious fact that co2 concentrations have drastically increased in recent decades without the previous temp increase 800 years ago. This is also not a gradual increase out of an ice age. We are already in an interglacial period. Also, man is currently pumping large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This “lag” is a non-issue in today’s situation. Don’t just find random “skeptical” arguments and post them. Investigate them and think about them first.

So is methane, yet you claim that man’s contribution from methane actually has more of an effect than CO2. This is despite the fact that man emits less methane, there is less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay as long as CO2.

Did you know that the fleas of the world put out more CO2 then all of Man’s cars?

While it is true that CO2 is emitted through natural biological and geological processes you omit a very important part of the carbon cycle – the absorption process known as the carbon sink (i.e. the ocean and the biosphere). Historically, the sink removed slightly more carbon dioxide from the air than was emitted naturally. However, man is now emitting CO2 faster than the planet can absorb it. We know this because we can measure the different isotopes of naturally occurring CO2 and man-made CO2 (C12 vs. C13).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

Perhaps you should google “CO2 800 years.” Did you know that temperature goes up prior to a rise in CO2?

I did google it and I got several conflicting reports. No wonder you’re so confused.

Seriously, have you even thought through any this? You routinely get your facts wrong and your arguments contradict themselves.

CO2 is a natural gas, Silke. Did you know that the fleas of the world put out more CO2 then all of Man’s cars? Perhaps you should google “CO2 800 years.” Did you know that temperature goes up prior to a rise in CO2?

Reasic, you do not even know the connection between weather and climate, so leave your tomfoolery at the door.

That’s a hell of a good idea, Glenn. Though, Bloomberg might have police on the lookout.

John, where does it stop? It’s that big slippery slope.

Did Bloomberg commit troops on the ground to this effort? No? Maybe it’s not the same, then.

It’s not that terrorism is “esoteric”. It’s that you wage war on physical entities, specifically, nations. Terrorism is a tactic/strategy.

2. I find it HILARIOUS that you have the tenacity to claim there is “idiocy” in the theory of anthropogenic climate change, and yet you cannot answer the simplest questions about our climate.

As you have stated before, methane has an effect. Why do you rule out CO2 (which lasts longer in the atmosphere and constitutes a much larger percentage of it)?

I hope you don’t continue to ignore this question, Teach.