I have as much evidence as you do as to what the climate was 550 million years ago and what caused it. Namely, nothing.
Don't project. The fact that you're ignorant of the topic doesn't mean the rest of the world is ignorant.
The question has never been whether GHGs can affect the planet's climate, the question is are GHGs the number one thing we should be worried about. The planet, within the last 1000 years has undergone massive climatic changes independent of CO2 levels. The possibility that other factors are involved?
Those others factors are studied in great depth by the science. See Crick's post #132 as an example.
DENIER, DENIER, DENIER. No discussion allowed
We're discussing it. You're avoiding that discussion.
Half of doubling of CO2 has caused a 1.0c warming. Prove it. This is at a time time the planet is coming out of the LIA.
Temperatures in 1850 were higher than they were previous to the start of the LIA, meaning the planet had completely recovered from the LIA by 1850. Anything past that date can't be blamed on the LIA. Hence, the "The Earth is still recovering from the LIA" theory is demonstrably wrong.
Prove it. The planet should be warming coming out of a cooler period.
The natural cycle right would be for the Earth to be very slowly cooling. That's been the overall pattern for the past 8000 years, and it should have continued into the next ice age in 25,000 - 50,000 years. Instead, the trend suddenly flipped to fast warming.
And much, maybe the majority, of the warming happened before AGHGs.
Since nobody ever said CO2 was the only thing controlling climate, that's irrelevant.
Welcome to science, prove it. You can't, and you know you can't
We can certainly prove that a fast warmup after an ice age and then slow cooldown is the historical pattern. We can prove we were in the slow cooldown phase. Since the Earth's current behavior contradicts the "It's a natural cycle!" theory, we know that theory is wrong.
"Science accepts the best theory that explains...." You must be kidding. You obviously don't care for science. Science couldn't care less about theory, prove it or shut up.
I understand your motivation. If I couldn't provide any theory that explained the observed data, I'd reject the scientific method just as you did. Fortunately, the rational side can provide such a theory, so we don't need to reject the scientific method.
If you want to be taken seriously, do what the rational side did. Provide a theory that explains the observed data, and which makes predictions that get proven to be correct.
Now this is funny. Which issues do you focus on? Black lives?
I'm focusing on the science, not any politics. I do thank you for confirming my point, which was that this is entirely about politics to you, so you adjust your "science" to match your politics, regardless of what the data shows.
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