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Old 01-07-2011, 12:30 PM   #406 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
There is thermal momentum -- ice doesn't melt right away after temperature rises -- and the temperature doesn't rise instantly as soon as carbon dioxide levels rise.

Again, volcanoes added 100PPM in about a MILLION YEARS, which is a big change and has a huge affect -- but humans have changed the carbon dioxide more than 110PPM in about 150 years.
So, on the one hand, a MILLION YEARS is about the time scale that carbon dioxide and temperatures have changed solely due to natural events.

On the other hand, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have shot upwards by about 36%, and all we have to show for it is a decrease in Antarctic surface temperatures?

Thermal momentum... So, that means that if the Sun were to suddenly disappear, for the sake of argument, that life should go on for the foreseeable future? Remember, thermal momentum... LOL!

Sounds pretty flimsy, Neil. Even AGW proponents have admitted that the Sun has some role in temperature fluctuation. Weird, I know...

(I do like how some AGW proponents like to say that "CO2 causes warming," too... Nice little feel to that, don't you think? The Sun doesn't cause warming, CO2 does! LOL!)

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