Climate Policy

[Concillian]

Again, as I see there are two simple explanations (not that this is a simple problem); A) CO2 rises linearly with the seemingly linear increase of small levels of GHG's released by humans for the past 300 years, orB)CO2 rises with an increase in temperature due to a reduced ability of the environment to sequester it. So I think that is the $10,000 Climatologist question; which came first, the CO2 rise, or the temperature rise?

If the temperature rise came first, and caused CO2 to start rising, it did so with remarkably close proximity in time to the start of the industrial revolution.

I feel I must reiterate the astoundingly low probability of this coinciding with what is a rather obvious trigger event with significant scientific understanding and explanation to back it up (steam engine --> people start burning fossil fuel at an alarming rate --> burning fossil fuel releases significant quantities of CO2 --> CO2 build up in the atmosphere is a result of these events)

I guess I don't fully understand the logic you're employing here. Can you explain in any way other than "maybe nature decided to change at the exact same time that mankind also created what most people would consider to be a 'trigger event'?" I mean is there more to what you're suggesting than "maybe there was some cosmically unlikely coincidence?"