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Thread #87391   Message #2853096
Posted By: Amos
01-Mar-10 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Jeeze, what a string of concatenated blither.

The point to understand is simple. If you look at the graphs, the rate of increase of global temperature breaks out of the range it has been in for a couple of thousand years by an order of magnitude. It is not, as LH suggests, going up an fown as it always has, in the traditional "snake in a tunnel" series of rises and falls. It is breaking out of the range. Significantly.

And it is doing so exactly in time-coincidence with the ramp up of human additives of CO2 to atmosphere, which is also breaking out of its normal oscillation by an order of magnitude. Naturally this makes carbon pollution a prime suspect.

Systems don't do that sort of thing unless a significant change in process has occurred. In our case the process that changed is the intense high-volume uncovering of carbon deposits which we then incinerate. Anyone got any numbers on how much carbon we (homo sap) adds to atmosphere by our industrial processes, internal combustion systems, etc.?