You wanted proof that CO2 determines Earth’s surface temperature? Here is your proof. Another fascinating result of climate science which appeared in a recent paper on “Science.” It summarizes what we know about temperatures and CO2 concentrations during the past 66 million years, with temperatures shown as color-coded. If you want to see both sets of data in graphical form, there you go; from the same paper.
Thanks Ugo. I have seen a well supported hypothesis that India slamming into Asia, thrusting up the Himalayas, which make rain fall on them, and give up CO2 into the calcium-containing rock, which washes down to the floor of the Indian ocean, and sits, may be what is cooling our planet off in the last few million years.
Contextually, looking at geological history, it is hard to see our current liberation of terrestrial carbon as catastrophic for life on Earth. It's going to have been a fairly short pulse, as far as Gaia will be concerned, maybe a few more human lifetimes...
Thanks Ugo. I have seen a well supported hypothesis that India slamming into Asia, thrusting up the Himalayas, which make rain fall on them, and give up CO2 into the calcium-containing rock, which washes down to the floor of the Indian ocean, and sits, may be what is cooling our planet off in the last few million years.
Contextually, looking at geological history, it is hard to see our current liberation of terrestrial carbon as catastrophic for life on Earth. It's going to have been a fairly short pulse, as far as Gaia will be concerned, maybe a few more human lifetimes...