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Not always.CO2 concentrations did not drive temperature. Temperature drove CO2 concentrations.
It was prior to the industrialization. Prior to industrialization CO2 was a proxy for temperature. Post industrial revolution the correlation was broken.Not always.
Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
In the past 60 years, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 100 times faster than it did during the end of the last ice age.www.climate.gov
It was prior to the industrialization. Prior to industrialization CO2 was a proxy for temperature. Post industrial revolution the correlation was broken.
If CO2 really did drive temperature the planet would not be 2C cooler with 120 ppm more atmospheric CO2.
You are truly an idiot if you believe CO2 has lead temperature prior to industrialization.Nope. CO2 has always been a greenhouse gas. As noted elsewhere the end Permian is a good example.
CO2 can lead or lag. There's nothing magical about the Industrial revolution. It didn't change the nature of CO2.
Nope, again. CO2 is NOT the only driver of climate on earth. It is only ONE of many forcings.
You are truly an idiot if you believe CO2 has lead temperature prior to industrialization.
Which is an exception to the geologic record which you should know, right?That's why I keep noting the End Permian. You have experience in petroleum so you know about the Permian. You've probably worked the Permian Basin in Texas.
The end of the Permian appears to have had a massive warming and ocean acidification event that was driven in part by added CO2 from the Siberian Traps.
Which is an exception to the geologic record which you should know, right?
Over the last 55 million years the planet is cooling.
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And you should know that the trend of the last 55 million years is for a cooling planet and a planet that transitioned from a greenhouse planet to an icehouse planet which we live in today.A petroleum engineer should know that the Cenozoic is only ONE era of the Earth's history.
Indeed this is such a small snapshot of the Earth's history that it is effectively meaningless to draw any larger conclusions about how CO2 can function as a forcing.
The idea that CO2 CAN'T cause warming requires not only a rejection of the geology but a complete rejection of chemistry and physics totally.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. By definition it causes warming. That's just what it does.
And you should know that the trend of the last 55 million years is for a cooling planet and a planet that transitioned from a greenhouse planet to an icehouse planet which we live in today.
You really should be looking at the transition from a greenhouse planet to an icehouse planet. When you can explain that let me know.I like looking at the much larger data set of the earth's history.
You like to cherry pick only a small subset of it to window down your data so you can wind up with the result you like.
Do you know how CO2 absorbs IR?
You really should be looking at the transition from a greenhouse planet to an icehouse planet.
When you can explain that let me know.
Because that is what has the greatest influence on today's climate.May I ask why you limit your interest in earth systems to just the most recent?
As has been noted many times before the warming was due to a variety of natural forcings. The Milankovich Cycle which has lead to MANY interglacials in the last 34 million years. No big whoop. There's certainly a role for changes in ocean currents which can cause climate change and maybe even some solar cycles in there as well.
No one, literally NO ONE says CO2 is the only driver for climate.
And if it warms, YEAH the oceans will warm and dissolved CO2 will escape. Just like if you were to warm an open can of soda. The dissolved gas comes out of solution. That's intro chemistry. They teach it to kids in high school.
This doesn't mean CO2 CAN'T POSSIBLY cause warming because we know why it does that and how it does it!
yeah, right.I'm laughing....
Nobody is caring about global warming.
You seem upset
Not always.
Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
In the past 60 years, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 100 times faster than it did during the end of the last ice age.www.climate.gov
Nope. CO2 has always been a greenhouse gas. As noted elsewhere the end Permian is a good example.
CO2 can lead or lag. There's nothing magical about the Industrial revolution. It didn't change the nature of CO2.
Nope, again. CO2 is NOT the only driver of climate on earth. It is only ONE of many forcings.
Not always.
Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
In the past 60 years, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 100 times faster than it did during the end of the last ice age.www.climate.gov