re: #41 jdog29

Manmade Climate change doesn’t depend on the temperature fluctuating up and down. What is being stated as an undisputable fact is that the way humans are using the Earth’s resources is CAUSING the extreme weather worldwide. It doesn’t matter if it is blistering hot or mind numbingly cold.

How exactly would extra CO2 cause numbing cold? This takes the meaning out of the word “cause”. There has to be a logical chain linking cause and effect. Wearing your lucky sweater was not the cause of your run of luck in Vegas. And putting extra CO2 into the atmosphere does indeed cause a reduction in thermal re-radiation of heat to the night sky, which on the face of it ought to cause the earth to be warmer than it would otherwise be. But pray tell what is it about CO2 that can cause it to be colder?

Extra CO2 or not, the earth will generate weather, and weather includes extremes of weather from time to time.