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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Well, to start out with, you're wrong about CO2 having risen in a straight line. See here: Scripps CO2 Program - Keeling Curve Lessons Notice that a) over the whole period, it's not straight, but an increasing curve; and b) there's lots of short-term variation, primarily a pronounced annual cycle due to northern hemisphere seasons. |
An explanation to my question was made earlier, but to pick out a detail in this no I don't see an increasing curve - I see (via eyeballing) a line before and after the period of 1990-1995 where the increase becomes less steep and then returns the previous trend.
I'm sure someone with an idea of cherry picking could extrapolate trends from different start and end periods which could either suggest we are doomed or suggest nothing is wrong.
But this is one place on the planet, isn't it ?