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Originally Posted by psili
I found a page with a bunch of NASA graphs too, but they trend upward *shrug*
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
I also couldn't find a graph that had CO2 emissions trending down. And the only thing I'm pretty confident when reading about this stuff is that:
1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas.
2. Globally, CO2 emissions are increasing due to man's actions.
3. Greenhouse gasses trap heat.
What am I missing? |
The difference, from what I can tell at a fairly quick glance, is that the charts you linked to are only measuring variance in temperature where as the one I posted is measuring both temperature variance and CO2 levels. I'm not arguing that temperature has not been increasing somewhat in the last 50 years.
What my chart showed is that for a period of at least 30 years, while CO2 levels were continually climbing, temperature was in fact falling. This makes it a little more difficult to believe that CO2 alone is responsible for temperature increases.