The long term trend has been upward for about 14 thousand years now...since the glaciers that extended down to the prairie started melting back....over the past century or so, the "trend" as you call it has been about a half a degree and most of that happened prior to 1950 and the rest is questionable due to data tampering.
Next, I don't have to prove that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. You can believe it or not. Next, rising CO2 levels are more from the activity of man. Not outgassing of warmer oceans. Next, don't complain about my volcabulary. My use of "correlation" was appropriate.
If you are going to demand that I alter my lifestyle, and pony up money that I earn, then you damned well do have to prove that CO2 is causing the global climate to warm...And again, just prior to the ice age that we are still in, the atmospheric CO2 levels were above 1000ppm so clearly CO2 is not the cause of any warming.
Next, most of my talk has been about the CO2 increase since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Not the temperature increase.
I thought according to you guys the two walk hand in hand. Well they do, but CO2 follows temperature, not the other way around. Ice cores show that fact over and over.
Though temperatures have been going up too. Lastly, I have to go along with what the vast majority of scientists say.
Really? Did you have to go along with what the vast majority of scientists said when they claimed that stomach ulcers were caused by stress? Did you go along with what the vast majority of scientists said when the claimed that plate tectonics was bunk? Did you have to go along with what the vast majority of scientists said when the claimed that quasicrystals did not exist? Did you have to go along with the vast majority of scientists when they said that there are 9 planets in the solar system? Did you have to go along with the vast majority of scientists when they said that there were 30 orders of insects? Did you have to go along with the vast majority of scientists when they said that humans evolved directly from tree dwelling apes? Did you have to go along with the vast majority of scientists when they said that there were 109 elements, 110 elements, 111, elements, 112 elements, 113 elements, 114 elements, 115 elements? Did you have to go along with the vast majority of scientists when they said the first mammals evolved about 155 million years ago? See a trend here?....and I could go on and on and on ad nauseum. The point is that early on in any field of study, science is damned near always wrong..and they stay wrong for a long time until they finally get it right....today, climate science is still based on a quaint 18th century hypothesis that was proven wrong just a few years after it was proposed...
I also have to go along with what most of the graphs say. When it comes to your opinion about human caused global warming, compared to those things, it isn't even in the running.
Graphs made by who? Showing what? in 1995 the IPCC said that the recent global temperature history looked like this.
That graph was based on literally hundreds of papers that found that the medieval warm period was global in nature and warmer than the present without the benefit of CO2....those papers still exist and their numbers have grown considerably...today the IPCC says that the recent global temperature history looked like this:
And this change is based on just a couple of papers which use very questionable proxy data and even more questionable methodology...so questionable in fact, that the person who produce the graph and the university he was associated with have spent millions keeping his raw data secret from the people who paid for it.
It is clear, that your position is based on your political leanings and not any sort of real examination of the facts. You take whatever you are given so long as it is given to you by someone whose political position meets with your approval. You really should change your name from cultsmasher to cult builder as your behavior is quite cultish.