Dear snail:

You are cherrypicking your data to prove what you want to prove.

My response about the thing you want me to respond to: I posted a fact about the Arctic sea ice. I am sorry if that is a problem for you. You seem to read something in my posts that is not there and make up my reasons for them. I don't believe I have to convince anybody of anything. The world does not have to follow what I believe.

So with the full expectation that you will make spurious claims about why I posted the following, find something that contradicts it and demand that I respond, I submit this for thought:

SOME PRETTY COMPELLING EVIDENCE ON WHAT IS DRIVING CO2

The table below shows c02 increases on Mt Loa since 1959. One can notice the spiking of co2 when el ninos occur, and how the co2 increases were higher when the PDO went warm. This further supports my idea that we are going to get our answer as to what is causing the warming. Cycles of c02 and the evidence that the co2 RESPONDS to warming, not causes it, is pretty straightforward with co-ordinating the data. The real kick in the teeth of co2 being the driver is the big fall with the Pinitubo cooling!............
............It would appear the co2 spikes are occurring with warming that is caused by the natural drivers of the warm PDO and the el nino. The most damming of the evidence against co2 being the driver was the drop around 1992 with Pinitubo cooling. To the rationale, objective person, does this look like co2 with its erratic up and downs around the times of el ninos, is the driver, or the driven. The answer is obvious, it is responding to spikes that occur with warming episodes, the driven, not the driver. You can see the response in co2 with and after the nino....