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Dogstoyevsky
Oct 9, 2012

If there is no Dog, everything is permitted

satan!!! posted:

The article isn't disputing that CC is occurring though. The opening paragraph -

[Economist article quote]

Isn't 'denying' anything, this is all a fair interpretation of the dataset cited in the first graph on the article. Read the whole thing, I don't think it's saying what you think it is.

I'm trying to grasp the gist of this phenomenon because this article (despite the fact that it seems to be pretty much saying that CC is still a thing, just that models might need to be reexamined) is being thrown around a lot on the right-wing blogosphere lately. More or less, the contention is: "If more carbon, why not more heat?" Which strikes me as dumb, because we're still looking at a pretty small time interval (a decade), and climate change isn't limited to temperature (ocean acidification), and climatological data is noisy because anthropogenic inputs aren't the only ones, right?

I don't understand climate, so I'm hoping someone who actually reviews the literature can explain why this is a total red herring using small words.

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