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I'm interested in following this, if others are game - CO2 has risen in a straight line (more or less) during measured periods (which is only since WW2 by instrumentation, estimates and proxies before that) but temps haven't
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Also, our particulate pollution was shading us somewhat - ironically, now that we have cleaner air (in the US and Europe anyway) more sunlight will come through (instead of reflect away) and warming will increase.
Suffice it to say that how warm the climate gets depends on the balance of incoming energy, and how much of that energy gets retained. There are at least four major forcings and myriad of more minor ones.
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The overall trend was toward an Ice Age, but anthropogenic CO2 has moderated that, and China's air pollution also.
The Sun's output rules (without it we would only have the tides
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