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Riddle me this (and this is also for TB)
Yeti — (archived)

Back 10 or 15 years ago, everyone agreed that CO2 was up and the AGW skeptics did not agree temperature was up. The claim by the climatologists was- increased CO2 would increase temperature- and they presented a causal model based on physics for why this would happen- IR opacity and reflectivity.

15 years later, wow- we are all in agreement that we are warming. But now the new Quibble form the AGW denialist position (held almost uniformly by people who don't work in the field or research and publish in the topic) is 'Oh, Sure- theres warming, but its not caused by the CO2'.

Do you see the problem yet?

Well, lets continue.

We have the observation that CO2 concentrations and global temperatures rise in tandem, dating back into the distant past. On one hand we have a causal mechanism by which CO2 raises temperature. On the other hand we have what? Pixie dust?

Do you have any science showing how increased temperature leads to increased CO2? You do realize that the Denialist camp claimed not 5 years ago that increased temperature will lead to increased CO2 uptake by encouraging global vegetation. Do you have any science attributing the nascent warming trend to anything else?

Occam's Razor obviously is not sharp enough to penetrate the politically fueled arguments here.

Yeti

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