Rigby5
Diamond Member
What's your point?
Prior to the industrial revolution CO2 served as a proxy for temperature. After the industrial revolution that correlation was broken.
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I disagree.
The link between CO2 and global temperature is solid.
What you are forgetting however, is that the connection is about the degree of solar energy that the CO2 allows to radiation back out into space.
That means when you greatly increase CO2, you do NOT instantly increase global warmth.
Instead you have just reset the maximum of how hot the earth will get from retained heat EVENTUALLY.
But it can take decades for the actual heat to be retained over the years.
And this is currently slowed even more by the energy absorbed by polar and glacial ice phase change to liquid.