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I dont know if wacki just hasnt had any time to respond ....
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I am extremely short on time and simply don't have time to respond to everyone. Plus all of this stuff has been discussed countless times before.
Glad you found the link. You are reading up on the topic which is highly commendable.
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So basically there is some probably unknown cause that starts the warming and CO2 increases it. This explanation leaves me very unsatisfied to say the least.
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It WAS unknown. It's no longer unknown:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php...limate-shifts/
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If CO2 causes temperature increases we would see CO2 decrease first even if there was some other initiater of the CO2 warming.
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This would assume that CO2 is the only factor. It's not. If the earth wobbles in it's orbit and the new orbit causes the earth to receive less sunlight then all the CO2 in the world isn't going to help. And that is precisely what is going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
There are other factors as well but Milankovitch cycles and Dansgaard-Oeschger events (discussed in the realclimate link above) are the two biggest ones. I've been meaning to create a web page explaining this stuff. So pressed for time right now so I dunno when I'll get to it. You are thinking critically which is excellent. Keep up the good work.