http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/sr05-02.pdf
Science is still trying to understand "Natural Climate Variability" and to what extent humans change it.
If they continue to claim that a 40% increase of atmospheric CO2 levels is linear with temperature increases, I'll have to keep reminding them that a less than 1% temperature increase (since 1880) has many other causes including natural fluctuations and forcings besides CO2.
Your link clearly shows just another natural cause and a pattern that is almost never pointed out by AGW proponents.
"Any warming can only be caused by humans" according to them.
I find it difficult to believe it is CO2 as why isn't Antarctic ice extent reducing as well, It might be solar but not directly, I think changes in arctic oscillation and ocean currents have something to do with it.
It is not by temperature as the arctic temps north of 80 degrees have been colder than average this year, and we still don't know much ice we will have at minimum extent, a lot could happen yet.
It's effected by all of the above. And Arctic sea ice extent would have reached a minimum in the late 1960s if the Sun were the dominant forcing.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/sidc-ss...
Both.
The issue isn't whether natural factors affect such things. We know they do. We've known the sun provides heat for thousands of years.
The issue is how adding 30 billion tonnes of CO2 each year into that mix of factors affects our planet's climate.
Solar activity has been proven several ways to be the major influence.
As to CO2, may I remind you that Earth's temperature has gone down for over a decade and at the same time CO2 level has increased. CO2 is definitely scientifically proven fact that it has no major influence.
As Kano says, why isn't Antarctic ice melting at a similar rate?
yes
Studies have shown that all are contributing.
It is liberal think, the same kind of liberal think that would suggest banning all guns if you could save just 1 child and act dumbfounded when you suggest banning automobiles.
NO
, ocean & atmospheric oscillations, wind & storm activity or man-made CO2?
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/sr05-02.pdf
