TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
It means the whole AGW argument is wrong. The global mean temperature operates independently of human activity. That's what it means. We have introduced hundreds of millions of metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, yet the temperature has not risen, it has stalled, and is showing signs of dropping.
So, why don't get invoked natural cycles when there's a stall? The deniers keep saying proponents ignore cycles, when the real truth is the deniers only cite them when it's convenient. Cycles are a part of the deal and a slowdown in temperature rise has absolutely nothing to do with the known properties of GHGs. What happens when the cycle reverses? Warming comes back with a vengeance. It's that lack of logic on the part of the deniers that shows they don't really care about the science, only the politics.
"A lack of logic" does not count as a valid argument. You are ignoring cycles. You completely ignored the medieval warming period, and the fact that it was WARMER during antiquity. Warming isn't coming back. It is pure ignorance of reality on the alarmists part to continue saying that a dramatic reversal will occur. We are at 390 ppm right now, we should be experiencing drastic changes in global mean temperature. Not so.