Read Could We Be Wrong About Global Warming? From the article:
Maybe so, says a new study published online today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The report found that only about half of the warming that occurred during a natural climate change 55 million years ago can be explained by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What caused the remainder of the warming is a mystery.....The conclusion, Dickens said, is that something other than carbon dioxide caused much of this ancient warming. "Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models -- the same ones used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for current best estimates of 21st century warming -- caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM."
From all that I have read on global warming and this article, I wonder if we are not looking at a chicken and egg problem here. The popular assumption is that excess carbon dioxide gases are causing global warming. Maybe the excess gases are the result of something else or a lagging indicator of global warming. Personally, I think that there are too many variables involved with climate change and I don't see any single variable as holding precedence.
Even so, my betters only see an economic solution to a scientific problem and using that, they lay all blame at the suppliers of carbon dioxide. For a change, why don't we instead look at the demand side and the consumers of carbon dioxide? Maybe we need to plant a bunch of these?
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