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" it was pushing the idea, and ignoring anything to the contrary hard "
That's cuz there's no evidence to the contrary. Every skeptic claim has been refuted. There's a Nobel for the person who saves us by proving the theory wrong. What we're actually finding is that the CO2 sensitivity, the temperature change caused by doubling CO2, is still pretty much what Arrhenius predicted in 1896, 1.5-4.5 degrees C. We temporarily hit the low end in '16. So far, we've increased it by a bit over 40% (from 280-410 ppm), and temps in 2/16 were 1.51 degrees above the pre-industrial baseline. If it is linear, doubling CO2 will increase temps by about 3.75 degrees C.
My candidate for a Nobel is Jennifer Francis, who has worked out how arctic sea ice influences our weather by screwing up the jet stream.
Now we've just screwed up the Gulf Stream. Dangerous climate tipping point is ‘about a century ahead of schedule’ warns scientist A slowing Gulf Stream system means catastrophic East Coast flooding will get much worse. Message 31570305
Trouble with all this is it never reads, "behind schedule", unless it's talking about CO2 reduction.
Antarctica - The ice deep below eight of Antarctica's largest glaciers is melting at an alarming rate, a new scientific analysis has revealed.
According to the study, which was published this month in the academic journal Nature Geoscience, Antarctica's frozen underbelly is melting and receding at a rate around five times faster than normal. In the centuries following an ice age, glacier grounding lines should retreat about 82 feet per year. But the ice under Antarctica is retreating at speeds peaking around 600 feet annually.
