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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (27042)	12/15/2009 2:15:53 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

You misunderstand the issue (as usual). The issue is the rate of warming happening now is unprecedented. That "study" dismisses (incorrectly) the role of CO2 in the process. It's well known that CO2 is an important greenhouse gas and it's concentration in the atmosphere is growing exponentially. Currently we're about 0.7 C above baseline (global avg. tempertature). Projections of current warming trends lead us to 2 C above baseline in 50 years. If that happens then disaster will strike. It's totally irrelevant what the temperatures were 500,000 years ago. Anyways to answer your question, here's a temperature trend from paleoclimatologists using EIV methods to reconstruct temperature records. It shows clearly that now is the warmest period in the past 1800 years: The information is from at least 8 reputable sources vs. your single "outlier". I trust the 8 sources.