To: Taro who wrote (740876 ) 9/21/2013 9:08:48 PM From: J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575207 How do I explain that? Well, unlike you I don't try to pretend that I know better than those scientists, who have spent all their life, education and career on trying to understand and even possibly explaning such 'weird' data. You don't have to pretend anything, but as a person who has scientific curiosity, you should feel obligated to try and understand the info your quoting.... What do the authors of that study give as a reason for data matching 800 years later....The global temperature changed naturally because of the changing solar radiation caused by variations in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, the Earth’s tilt and the orientation of the Earth’s axis. These are called the Milankowitch cycles and occur in periods of approximately 100,000, 42,000, and 22,000 years. These are the cycles that cause the Earth’s climate to shift between long ice ages of approximately 100,000 years and warm interglacial periods, typically 10,000 – 15,000 years. The natural warming of the climate was intensified by the increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. “What we are observing in the present day is that mankind has caused the CO2 content in the atmosphere to rise as much in just 150 years as it rose over 8,000 years during the transition from the last ice age to the current interglacial period and that can bring the Earth’s climate out of balance,” explains Sune Olander Rasmussen adding “That is why it is even more important that we have a good grip on which processes caused the climate of the past to change, because the same processes may operate in addition to the anthropogenic changes we see today. In this way the climate of the past helps us to understand how the various parts of the climate systems interact and what we can expect in the future.” the increase in CO2 likely lagged the increase in regional Antarctic temperature by less than 400 yr and that even a short lead of CO2 over temperature cannot be excluded. This result, consistent for both CO2 records, implies a faster coupling between temperature and CO2 than previous estimates, which had permitted up to millennial-scale lags. wattsupwiththat.com