drnickbone comments on Open Thread, December 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Paul_G 07 December 2012 12:13:15AM 2 points [-]

Why do LWers believe in global warming? The community's belief has changed my posterior odds significantly, but it's the only argument I have for global warming at the moment. I saw the CO2 vs temperature graphs, and that seemed to sell it for me... Then I heard that the temperature increases preceded the CO2 emissions by about 800 years...

So why does the community at large believe in it?

Thanks!

Comment author: drnickbone 15 December 2012 03:01:05PM 2 points [-]

You might want to look at Skeptical Science which lists a large number of arguments raised by skeptics of global warming, and what climate science has to say about them. "CO2 lags temperature" is number 11 on the list. Here is the basic response:

CO2 didn't initiate warming from past ice ages but it did amplify the warming. In fact, about 90% of the global warming followed the CO2 increase.

Comment author: Paul_G 15 December 2012 09:01:21PM 1 point [-]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you kindly, looking through it as soon as I find time.