QUOTE BY HARVEYH42: From what has been taught in schools, since I was a youngster, the planet was much warmer before the last great ice age. It would make sense that the planet would eventual return to that temperature, as it recovers.
That doesn't account for the speedup in warming that corresponds with the accumulaiton of green house gases in the atmosphere. None of the alternarive explainations I see for the recent warming coorelate as well as anthropogenic CO2 rise, which began near the start of the industrial revolution, where the burning of fossile fuels began. The temperature rise has been pretty rapid, and could rise even faster. Besides, how do you know what part of the cycle we are in presently, and so the temp should rise. The last ice age ended 11,000 years ago, and recovery may be over with. If you look at temperatures during most interglacials, the temp doesn't just keep rising. It hits a peak early in the cycle, and either levels off or changes very slowly.
Water has a much larger role in all this, than anything else on the planet, in can exist in three different states, depending on temperature and pressure, and has a lot of influence on how everything else interacts. It is the most abundant compound on the planet
I believe that models already account for that. It may have a mitigation effect, but still not cancel warming.
Climate Change based on man-made CO2, is shaky proof, at best. Everything else is too quickly rejected, to have been considered carefully. This battle has little to do with saving the planet, its an agenda, for political power, and financial gain.
There is much more power and financial gain to be realized by trying to counter global warming science.
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