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A Chilling Perspective
Based on the analysis of entrapped air from ice cores extracted from
permanent glaciers from various regions around the globe, it has been
demonstrated that global warming began 18,000 years ago,
accompanied by a steady rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Humans
are quite likely the cause of a large portion of the 80 ppm rise in CO2
since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and from a distance, it looks
possible that increasing CO2 may cause atmospheric temperatures rise.
However, on closer examination it is seen that CO2 lags an average of
about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- conrming that CO2
is not the primary driver of the temperature changes.
More Detail:
NOTE: All charts were plotted directly from data sets using Lotus 1-2-3.
References:
(1) Climate Change Science; Compiled by Ken Gregory, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
November 11, 2007.
(2) Climate experts debate in NYC, March 2007-- specically, testimony by Dr.
Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1) Ice Core Records of Atmospheric CO2 Around the Last Three Glacial
Terminations
Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek Mastroianni, and
Bruce Deck
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science, 283, 1712-1714
Get the data at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo
/vostokco2.html
Temperature Graphs:
C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, C. Ritz, L. Merlivat, N. I. Barkov, Y. S. Korotkevitch
and V. M. Kotlyakov, A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice,
Nature,
316, 1985, 591-596.