actually the odd thing here for you ... is that in this area of co2 and warming you use your strong analytical abilities to separate out fact from fiction and then you let us know your opinion.
So all of sudden you find yourself on my team... because that is what I do all the time. I find facts, then I argue what the experts say when linking to those facts... then I argue my opinion.
If you started all you arguments from facts... instead of your spin... you would find yourself on our team more often, maybe even all the time.
lets look at my big arguments here.
1. its a fact... that science has no complete pathway from non life to life.
2. its a fact that many top scientists state the constants of our universe appear designed and that we have no proof of other universes.
3. its a fact that scientists say there is know statistically discernable warming in the air temp of the earth the last 16 years.
4. its a fact scientists who study the ice core say that historically temps lead CO2 not the other way.
5. Its a fact that after mellon, kennedy, reagan and bush tax cuts... revenues went up. Its even a fact that after the Bush tax cuts... the 1% paid more.
6. and our argument... its a fact the IRS admitted it targeted conservatives for scrutiny. there is no doubt about it.
your red herring about the fact they may have deserved the scrutiny was just that... a red herring. They still targeted conservative groups and that is wrong under our constitution and our laws.
It is my opinion they should therefore be shutdown.
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This is one of your most intelligent posts, jem - I hate to say it, but it may be the only one. Stick with this line of reasoning, young man. Forget the global warming is caused by liberals line of reasoning, and we will listen.
By the way, the answer you're going to get to your question is "the ice core data". But personally I think the interpretation of that data is wrong, and Salby has it right. He is going to run head on into the establishment, and it won't be easy for him until someone else, preferably a European, confirms his work. I think that will happen, but it could take a couple years.
Here is a start though...in everyday language that most can follow.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/swedish-scientist-replicates-dr-murry.html
It is conceivable that Salby could eventually be awarded the Nobel prize if he is shown to be correct. (Until is work is published and subjected to broad criticism, we have to allow that he may be wrong.) He is definitely a maverick, and apparently a little hard to get along with. That will not serve him well,as the Nobel is very political.
Salby, whatever you may think of his personality, is an accomplished scientist with top notch training and experience. He is no quack, and because of his personality it is unimaginable that he could ever be in the Koch brothers' pocket. Any time you break from conventional thinking in science you'll run into a brick wall that is very hard to penetrate, but ultimately science wins out. It always does.