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Old 08-14-2006, 01:25 PM
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Default Re: The Global Warming consensus is total.

I am not going to beat around the bush either, I am simply going to make one analogy to attributing the warming in the past 100 years to "exiting an iceage".

It's like attributing the warming between 7am and 11am this morning to "exiting an iceage".

Just because it happens during the course of "exiting an iceage" doesn't mean it is caused by the same process. In fact a process operating on cycles of millions of years has zippo effect on scales of just a century.

For example earth's eliptical orbit cycles every 100,000 years. 150 years is just 0.15% of that. So even if the maximum of that cycle led to 10C additional temperature and the minimum led to 10C lower temperatures, in just a period of 150 years the temperature variation would be around a tiny 0.03C. So even though orbital variation would cause 20C variation over millions of years, it cannot account for a 1C increase in just 150.