Quote from trefoil:
Given a six year lag, we will calculate the expected temperature anomaly for 2003-2008, given the above, as both an average and a median, and the formula for figuring this out for CO2, which is 5.35 * ln(ending CO2/starting CO2) *.8
Answer the simple question of how the forcing formula was so accurate. It's a very simple question.
Stop dodging. We've all seen those models. They explain precisely nothing about present-day warming, given that there was no agriculture or industry in those models, but there is now.
Your bit about water vapor was a dodge and an obfuscation.
That graph is a dodge and an obfuscation.
The formula is precise, simple, and replicable. It's based on data that's precise, simple, and replicable in the sense that it's out there in the public domain and accessible by anyone, including you.
Answer the question.