stockingfull wrote:Which came first, the elevated CO2 or the temp increase?
What's the reason for the astronomically high CO2 levels, never before seen on the planet, at this time? The correlation between that and the unprecedented (in the history of the planet) mining of carbon-based fuels is ... pure coincidence???
If you follow the science, the earth has had many eons where CO2 is way higher than it is now. Put aside the hype, and look
at the science. What is the largest source of CO2 on the planet? The oceans. Al Gores movie failed to follow the science all
the way. They assumed that CO2 levels were a cause of the increasing temps. Problem is the temps grew colder during
the industrial age, when if the CO2 theory was true, temps should have risen. Then grew warmer from about 1970 till now. Now, it looks as though we are heading into another cooling
spell. There are several other indicators that show the earth is not warming because of CO2, and that the cooling/warming
cycles that can be read for the past couple of thousand years are normal. The biggest influence is solar activity. Temp trends
both warming and cooling for the past 2000 years directly coincide with solar activity. The truth will
set you free, or get you dead on the side of a back road in the boonies! Trust No One!

Not to say pollution is not bad,
but CO2 is NOT the evil green house gas it is being labeled as by some.
To be fair, you can see how people would take the bait. Warming planet, we are doomed, crap! The irony is the money
being spent on the CO2 question, both public and private. Amazing $$$. Well, when the furor dies down, hopefully all
that money found other useful information along the way, or it could go down as the largest boondoggle in the history of
man. Maybe not, the current bail out thing may take the prize!