Rusty1970....just show me one link that proves that CO2 has any effect on global temperature.
CO2 is a trace gas....even though the politicians talk in billions of tonnes, it means nothing when you are comparing to the entire atmosphere. it is still 335 parts per million, which is 0.000335% of the atmosphere!
Second law of Thermodynamics...heat flows from a warmer object to a cooler object. So, there is no radiation from CO2 that will warm the Earth. The blanket effect...a resistor that slows the flow of heat...CO2 only acts on two narrow wavelengths of radiation.
The true driver of climate is the Sun and the Moon. Sun provides the energy and the Moon does the mixing...always has, always will. El Nino/La Nina, NPDO, IOD...all of it driven by Solar energy and gravitational force. What is happening now happened in the 20's and 30's in the US. PDO in a cool phase, jet streams sitting further south in the SW US and you get drought...nothing to do with ice melt or a trace gas, just plain old physics!
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