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To: cogitator

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't he simply confirming the thesis that CO2 leads to warmer temperatures?

If that is the case, then the burning of fossils fuels, which clearly lead to the release of large amounts of CO2 would be raising temperatures and therefore support theories of anthropgenic climate change.

Obviusly it has occurred for natural reasons in the past, but there is nothing in the article judgmental one way or the other about the cause of the increase in CO2. Or am I missing something?


3 posted on 03/29/2007 9:37:48 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (I don't care what side of the debate you are on: Weather is not Climate)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

Less than one tenth of one percent, or .001, is not a significant amount of CO2 scientifically, and is all that mankind can be accused of creating.


5 posted on 03/29/2007 10:00:02 AM PDT by Camel Joe (liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
simply confirming the thesis that CO2 leads to warmer temperatures

The order appears to be the other way. Increased temperature produced increased partial pressure CO2. Somebody can produce a chart of data from cores.

6 posted on 03/29/2007 10:02:59 AM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz; Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
From the article: A popular predictor of future climate sensitivity is the change in global temperature produced by each doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere.

An article like this supports climate sensitivity to anthropogenic CO2 increases, which has been estimated by several other methods (with appropriate error bars). The range is 1.5 to 4.5 C in the IPCC. 3C lands right in the middle.

11 posted on 03/29/2007 1:37:06 PM PDT by cogitator
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