" If temperature changes alter CO2 levels, this question has several possible answers. If CO2 levels cause the high temperatures, not so much."
I can think of at least one reason off the cuff:
High CO2 levels produce high temperatures which result in large-scale die-offs of parts of the ecosystem that release CO2 - if forests turn to desert, they may produce a lot of CO2 at first as plant matter decays, but then when the climate and organisms adjust, there is a bloom of CO2 absorbing organisms - algae, new types of plants in modified climatic zones.
In any case, those kinds of changes will take a long time to bring things back into balance, whereas changes producing spikes in CO2/temperature can result from a positive feedback mechanism that changes things very rapidly. Organisms die off much faster than they move and adapt to new climatic conditions.
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CO2 vs temperature
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- Climate 'denial' is now a mental disorder
- If enough people believe anything it's considered "normal".
- The problem is that almost all consideration of global warming is VERY short-term.
- The Null Hypothesis
- Falsification of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect
- Gee, that's odd.
- So what you are saying is...
- Threadbare argument
- I don't even know where to start... (n/t)
- Perhaps with my first question
- No. Next? (n/t)
- And also...
- Show me the conclusive physics/models that show increasing "greenhouse gasses" produces no "greenhouse effect" (n/t)
- Good luck. For AGW there aint no such animal as falsification. ;-) (n/t)
- Oh?
- And also...
- No. Next? (n/t)
- Perhaps with my first question
- I don't even know where to start... (n/t)
- Threadbare argument
- It's not a mental disorder. They know exactly what they're doing. (n/t)
- Not surprising.
- If enough people believe anything it's considered "normal".