>I never called you an oil stooge, or even said you were wrong, just backing up my opinion. And BTW the graph I provided shows HUGH increases beyond anything in the last 400K years. I think we are in a long term cycle, which we are Exacerbating. There are many natural influences which likely we can do nothing about, but we can do something about the additional stress humans are adding.
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>Show me on your graph when the last time CO2 was at 380 PPM??
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No graph, just a citation in the journal Science

From the journal Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5795/1928

"...indicates [CO2]atm > 1125 ppm (four times preindustrial concentrations), which confirms that high [CO2]atm coincided with Eocene warmth. "


Neither one of us is going to convince the other. Like you, I believe that reducing our dependence on oil is probably the best thing we can do for our national security.
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>>and I disagree, I wasn't just 'pointing' to graphs. I was trying to make the point that the warming we see now is could very well be part of a natural cycle that has repeated many times during the earth's history. What bothers me is that anyone who dares to differ with the current paradigm is automatically a stooge of big oil.
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>>>>You really didn't answer my question, Do you honestly see any difference between 'today' and the peaks 130,000, 240,000 and 330,000 years ago? Those dramatic rises in CO2 concentrations were in no way related to industrial pollution. From the link you pointed to:
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