re: #291 danrudy

Oopss, I think I screwed that up. I meant to say that temperatures lag solar activity by about 10 years, thu when there is a period of activity of solar activity there is a 10 year lag in temperatures. it tracks much better to solar activity . the co2 levels lag even further behind. This is thought to occur because as tempertures become warmer and plant life flourishes co2 goes up. In periods of decrease solar activity followed by decreasing tempertures and decreasing plant life co2 levels decrease.
Co2 is a laggin indicator. SOlar activity is the lead indicator.
I urge you to watch the documentary from te BBC
THe great global warming swindle by david durkin. makse mince meat of al gores documentary

Gah! In past glacial cycles, ice sheets covered much of the continents. Plant life significantly decreased. Buried biomass couldn’t rot. Thus, atmospheric CO2 decreased. When the cycle reversed, heat increased first, leading to the melting of the ice sheets, which exposed the buried biomass, which rotted and then CO2 levels increased. So in past cycles, temperature rises preceded CO2 rises.

*Of course* it did. Perfectly logical.

What was the driver of the cycle? Perhaps the theory of Milankovitch cycles, which show a widening of the distance from the earth to the sun on a long wave explain it. Seems logical.

But the point is that human activity has thrown a monkey wrench into what was basically a stable system for several million years. And all of the funding thrown to folks to rebut that simple fact cannot change the reality that things have gone wonky.