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I'll address a lie from the Heartland Institute. It is a lie of both omission (for leaving out relevant facts), and commission (for misrepresenting the science). The so-called scientific article doesn't even qualify as an abstract. I'd like to see the actual paper, if they are making that claim in earnest.
It is true that spikes in CO2 levels have sometimes followed after a warming spike.
Even a casual examination of their own charts reveals that, before all of the biggest warming spikes, there was a preceding large spike in CO2 levels first. You can see for yourself, for each big blue spike, there was a red one that came just before.
The climatologists would never claim that CO2 spikes never follow warming spikes. The claim is that large spikes often are preceded by abnormal CO2 levels, and that this starts a chain reaction, warming the entire planet in a short time.
This theory was controversial at one time even in the scientific community, but is now gaining acceptance as the best explanation for mass extinction events, and large degrees of turmoil on Planet Earth. The Heartland Institute offers no competing theory or evidence of their own.
I like the ocean where it is. Call me chicken little, but with your attitude, I'd suggest you build a boat.
By the way, whatever the definition of my name means, one thing it definitely means is that you don't get to define it. Cheers.
