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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: brazil84 16 February 2010 12:21:34AM 1 point [-]

Since the effects are alleged to take place over decades, asking to see this evidence now is asking for impossible evidence.

I'm not sure what you mean by "decades," since the warmists have had well over 20 years now. Anyway, the warming which took place during the 1990s was alleged to have been the result of CO2 emissions, agreed? And do you agree that some of these computer climate simulations have been used to make shorter-term predictions?

A priori, yes we should.

Well, do you agree that there many different possible feedback loops one could postulate?

It's fine to believe in such a mechanism, even if you can't justify it from first principles, provided that you have direct empirical evidence for it.

I'm not sure whether you would classify it as a first principle or as empirical evidence . . . it's just common sense.