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Originally Posted by Biochemist
I tried to scan this (long) thread. I am not sure I succeeded. I could not find the main counterargument (although I might have missed it).
The critique of the fact base for CO2-caused warming is not right-wing conservatives. This is the "bogey-man" argument. (e.g., "we are only in Iraq because of DICK CHENEY!!!" or "This is just like ENRON!!").
The core critique is (I think) that the correlation between CO2 change and climate change is weak. It looks like (based on current data) that the correlation between solar activity and temperature change is stronger. Ergo, the argument is not whether CO2 is rising (it is) or whether we have warmed between 1960 and 1990 (we did), this issue is causality.
And I think that improved data capture is further weakening the CO2 causality argument.
I have several scotch bottles bet with folks that we will be worrying more about global cooling than global warming by 2020.
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that is mostly what i've been saying.
if earth is warming abnormaly for a life sustaining planet that is "billions of years old" then the cause most likely has something to do with the distance from a giant ball of fire
