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To: cogitator
I never said increasing CO2 levels cause warming. I don't think it does and there are plenty of others out there who don't think so either.

Climate is average weather. Regional climate is more variable than global climate, obviously.

You're preaching to the choir.

53 posted on 03/20/2008 10:45:47 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
I never said increasing CO2 levels cause warming.

As I said, data support an explanatory framework. The influence of atmospheric CO2 concentrations on planetary temperatures is an explanatory framework. To demonstrate, I provided a reference of paleoclimatic data analyses over 420 million years indicating that doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration induces, at a minimum, a 1.5 degree C global temperature increase. (Maximum 6.2 deg C, median 2.8 deg C). That is one example of how data and data analyses support an explanatory framework.

A wide variety of data types and analyses support the explanatory framework that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations induce warmer global temperatures*. The alternative -- that they don't -- is not as strongly supported, by a long shot.

* The basis for this framework is the direct physical observation that the CO2 molecule absorbs longwave (infrared) radiation.

What you or anybody "think" (i.e. opinion) doesn't matter in science. What matters in science is the explanatory framework that is best supported by the data.

55 posted on 03/20/2008 11:27:34 AM PDT by cogitator
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