Climate Change: What's your take?

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KLAMarine said:

Groundking said:

all the data shows that a temperature increase PRECEEDS an increase in CO2, I'm NOT saying that the increase in temperature causes the increase in CO2, I'm simply stating that temp increases preceed CO2 increases. There is nothing wrong in saying that.

Callion et al. 2003 (This is the first study showing this, there has been plenty since.

Are you saying there's never an instance of temperature increases lagging CO2 increases? In other words, never an instance of CO2 increasing first and then temperatures going up?

In our ice core data CO2 concentration always follows the temperature increase, but as this graph shows this only goes back a few hundred thousend years and data prior to that is far more vague.

There are several instances in earth history in which it's presumed that dramatically rising or sinking CO2 levels had a big influence on earths climate, but in our current ice-house climate and within that 200ppm-300ppm window of the last few 100k years CO2 has acted as more of an amplifier for other factors (gulf stream activity, solar activity/distance) to create several stable inter-glacial periods.