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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10038)6/27/2009 12:25:24 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
Your logic is a little off. The last 8 years are still at record highs when compared to temperatures over the last 150 years. What we are seeing is that both CO2 and sunspots influence temperatures. However, CO2 influences it more. So average temperatures flat lined while sunspots disappeared, but now that the sun is getting ready to produce sunspots again, we're going to see temperatures start moving up inexorably again.

If sunspots were really the dominant factor, then temperatures would have plummeted to record lows during this period of zero sunspots. But it didn't because CO2 was keeping temperatures high despite the lack of sunspots.
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