It's like asking which animal or plant has the most effect on the health of a rain forest.
There are thousands of climate variables, and with new research, we are finding even more ways that a small kick in one part of the world can make the climate jump thousands of miles away.
This came out about a week ago. Does it change the big climate picture? Probably not, but who knows? Does it confuse the analysis even more? For sure.
At some point, people have to stop wallowing in the data, stand back, and think. If you do that, questions occur.
One of the biggest ones I have that nobody has answered to my satisfaction: To oversimplify, there were many warming spikes in history, when temperature and CO2 went up. Usually suddenly. If CO2 drives this pattern, what makes the spikes go back down again?
You see, going by the greenhouse effect as the major temperature driver, greenhouse gas warming OUGHT to be "runaway." It isn't. Why? Why the spikes in the first place, for that matter?
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It was kind of a trick question