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Originally Posted by recoveringCK
Regarding 7. “Global warming continues; 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded” found in
Really?
Does that include temperatures estimated over geologic time illustrated in the following graph?
Apparently not.
Temperatures have been higher. Much higher. And lower.
We are in an interglacial period of global warming after the Pieistocene ice age. That's good. Not bad.
CO2 does not drive temperature as illustrated by the following graph.
In case clarification is necessary, in the heading Anthropocentric Global Warming or Climate Change Heresies, by “Anthropocentric Global Warming”, I did NOT mean Global Warming or climate change caused by non human factors as is illustrated in the above graphs.
You know what they say about the weather,
"If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes. It will change."
Climate change is real. Climate does change. Except you have to wait a lot longer than for weather changes.
CO2 does not drive climate change. Mostly it's the sun. The sun is the source of global warming.
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The quote refers to "recorded temperatures", not inferred temperatures. It is referring to temperatures measured and recorded by human civilization. Humans have only been alive during the Holocene, so you are pulling up inferred temperatures in the geologic past that are millions of years predating humans.
For example 500 million years ago basically predates all life except for single cell organisms. 250 million years ago is the worst extinction in Earth's history. The KT boundary is the extinction of the dinosaurs. So put this into context -- in the last 500 million years the Earth has gotten extremely hotter than it is today, of course those episodes resulted in an environment that humans did not live in and in many cases were not able to live in. Likewise, some of the most extreme cases of global warming in the geologic past took place at the same time as major extinctions.