Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?

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Since you expressed it correctly here, I assume you realize your original statement was off by several orders of magnitude, but I knew what you meant.

Decimal place accuracy aside, I have to disagree with your main point that it's the climate science adherents that aren't taking a long enough view.
When we emerged from the ice age about 11,000 years ago global temperatures rose about 5 deg F over a 7000 year period. Global temperature is now up 1.4 deg F in less than 200 years. The rapid temperature increase coincides with a steep increase in CO2 concentration that is now much higher than it's been in the last 800,000 years. (It probably hasn't been this high in at least 5,000,000 years) Our species has never experienced anything like this.

Looks like a nice regular cycle for the last 400K years and that we are not quite at the next peak yet according to your graph. How is this proving your point?

1. Temperature change correlates to CO2 concentration change over a really long timeframe.
2. CO2 concentration has increased very rapidly to a crazy high level viewed in a really long timeframe.
3. Climate scientists consider changes that have occurred over a really long timeframe.

This graph doesn't have enough granularity to show the warm up of the last 150 years.

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The food web appears to have been obliterated from the bottom. It’s credible that the authors link the cascade to arthropod loss, Schowalter said, because “you have all these different taxa showing the same trends — the insectivorous birds, frogs and lizards — but you don’t see those among seed-feeding birds.”

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Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.670efc301320

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

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Remember when California had a water shortage? It was never going to change and was proof of climate change.

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I never heard that

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Remember when California had a water shortage? It was never going to change and was proof of climate change.

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Remember when California had a water shortage? It was never going to change and was proof of climate change. Now all but one of the major California reservoirs are over 100% of normal, as they were last year, the one reservoir that is below 100% is at 88%. Now we hear nothing but crickets. I expect there will be an immediate flood of post about the drought in other areas. My point is the selective coverage of news that supports climate change advocates position and the non reporting of anything that doesn't. You would think that record levels in the California reservoirs would be news worthy but it doesn't support the climate change algorithms so we hear nothing from the cartel.

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It's the overall trend which matters. For instance record snowfalls didn't mean we haven't had our warmest years overall. And just like you're doing, people have pointed to record events to somehow insist the overall trend has changed. It hasn't.

Human induced warming is superimposed on normal varying climate conditions, so it virtually will never have smooth progress in one direction. But the overall trend will still be there as long as it's going on.