He also is unable to differentiate between corelation and causation and seems completely oblivious to the fact that ice cores show that CO2 levels follow temperature.
So you accept that there IS correlation between CO2 and temperature?
Therer is corelation between damned near everything and everyting else if you look hard enough. Here are a few examples of how wrong assuming corelation is the same as causation can be from wiki.
Since the 1950s, both the atmospheric CO2 level and obesity levels have increased sharply. Hence, atmospheric CO2 causes obesity.
The more firemen fighting a fire, the bigger the fire is observed to be.
Therefore firemen cause an increase in the size of a fire.
Lack of religion is associated with increased rates of depression.
Therefore, lack of religion directly causes increased rates of depression.
Sleeping with one's shoes on is strongly correlated with waking up with a headache. Therefore, sleeping with one's shoes on causes headache.
Young children who sleep with the light on are much more likely to develop myopia in later life. Therefore, sleeping with the light on causes myopia.
As ice cream sales increase, the rate of drowning deaths increases sharply.
Therefore, ice cream consumption causes drowning.
Corelation is reason enough to give one suspicion to do further tests...not a basis to make outrageous claims. Since no actual evidence exists that proves that CO2 causes warming and the empirical evidence we have suggests that CO2 follows temperature, your belief that CO2 causes rising temperatures is unfounded. It is an unproven, unsupported, unjustified assumption.
