/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10570736
As long as we keep CO2 around 350ppm we'll be fine.

Good goys, no correlation!

>>7245760
>Showing that the recent increase in CO2 is trivial.
Increase in CO2 is anthropogenic is trivial*

>>7245766
That's too simple of an approach, especially considering that CO2 is a natural byproduct of burning fossil fuels, which drastically improves our standards of livings.

On to my next point: showing that the change in climate can be attributed to CO2. This is more complicated because there are a lot of factors in determining climate. In fact, climate variability makes it difficult to detect the overall change in short periods of time.
This also makes cherry picking data very easy, so long as one selects the appropriate years and a short enough time. Posted is a graph of a 44 year period (most climatologists examine trends over 30 years at a minimum). Note the variability vs the overall trend.

>>7245784
>>Is CO2 really a pivotal driver of temperature and will result in predicted temperature increase?
>>to which the answer is no

This is demonstrably untrue. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-2-1.html

In particular, http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-2-1-figure-2.html

The previous link compiles various studies that research forcing and condenses them to determine which is the largest contributor. Thus, CO2 is the pivotal force in driving climate change, especially if one is to consider CO2 equilibrium. The following peer-reviewed paper discusses such: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~earpmf/papers/ForsterandGregory2006.pdf