re: #173 eschew_obfuscation

In that last chart, isn’t it interesting that CO₂ levels rise and fall AFTER temperature rises and falls (respectively)?

That might have something to do with the way that our oceans, the largest CO2 sinks we have, react to temperature variations. Cooler temps cause more CO2 absorption and higher temps cause more release. Seems a little counter-intuitive at first, but chemistry can be that way sometimes.

I’m an AGW skeptic, in the sense that I doubt the alarmist view, but that is one possible explanation for those graphs. We don’t know yet the effect of releasing this much CO2 into the atmosphere, nor for that matter, what an ideal level of CO2 in the atmosphere would be.

More study is needed.