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Old May 9, 2007, 01:32 pm   #217 (permalink) (top)
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That's making the false assumption that that atmosphere is a closed loop system where X change = Y result with no other factors involved, no other dynamics in play.

And THAT'S where all the anthropomorphic climate change formulas fail miserably. We don't KNOW how it all works together, on a global scale. Sure, if X change happens, we THINK Y will happen, but then there is the Z effect we cannot account for.
How about this. We KNOW that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. We KNOW it is increasing. And we KNOW that higher levels of greenhouse gases will trap more heat than if we did not have those greenhouse gases. You don't need to have a model to figure that much out.

Sure, we don't know exactly how much change 1 PPMV of CO2 will have on temperature, but that is absolutely not an excuse to do nothing when we have a good idea of what will happen.

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This is precisely why global climate model runs fail when using a start date of 1900 and the KNOWN conditions and run to today with all the variables we know put in. The models always over estimate the temperature, always.
Have you looked at one of these climate models? Can you provide a link? I am interested in looking at the one's you are talking about.
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