Another acquittal of CO2's role in warming from the scientific community that is both current & germane. The ocean heating here is laid not to volcanism, but rather solar effects; nevertheless, it is the ocean adding heat not the greenhouse effect.
Clues to End of the Last Ice Age
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Originally Posted by Terah U. DeJong
Lead author Lowell Stott, a professor of earth sciences at USC College
Photo/Dietmar QuistorfIn contrast to what is often inferred from the geologic record, carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new USC study published in Science suggests.
“There has been this continual reference to the correspondence between CO2 and climate change as reflected in ice core records as justification for the role of CO2 in climate change,” said paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott, the study’s lead author and a professor of earth sciences at USC College.
“You can no longer argue that CO2 alone caused the end of the ice ages.” ..
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“I don’t want anyone to leave thinking that this is evidence that CO2 doesn’t affect climate,” Stott cautioned. “It does, but the important point is that CO2 is not the beginning and end of climate change.”
While an increase in atmospheric CO2 and the end of the ice ages occurred at roughly the same time, scientists have debated whether CO2 caused the warming or was released later by an already warming sea. ...
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