[Mrs. Don-o]

I thought it was soundly demonstrated in the record that CO² is a trailing indicator. The charts show it starts going up about 800 -1000 years after the temps start on their rise. So CO² couldn't be the cause of the temperature rise. You can't cause something by coming along 800 years after it happens.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here.

[Paladin2]

Well, we do have an experiment going on where we apparently increase the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and wait to see what happens. 50 to 100 years should provide a good indication. After we correct for the sun and all other drivers, of course.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

They will say that warming does produce CO2, but to some extent CO2 also causes warming. Al Gore doesn’t even understand what the so-called “climate scientists” are claiming.

[dangus]

Yes, in the ice cores, representing tens and hundreds of thousands of years, since the recent era of intermittent ice ages began, CO2 lags temperature changes. In the much longer time-scale measurements (hundreds of millions of years), there’s very little correlation. These time scales I alluded to aren’t much useful for showing which led which, but they demonstrate the idiocy of the notion that CO2 is proportional to atmospheric temperature.