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@Ponderable said
So to clear up a few points:

* a scientific theory is not idle speculation

* a scientific theory needs to explain all (or at leats the vast majority) of observations.

* scientific theory needs to be able to forecast the result of experiments succesfully.

* any scientific theory needs to be formulated thus that it can be falsified.

* nay scientific theory will vanish if a better (simpler, explains also seldom results, ...) theory comes up.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/21/we-teach-kids-only-half-the-scientific-method/

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@Metal-Brain
You really know how to pick them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That%3F

A blog instigated by a climate change denier, yep, REAL authentic and unbiased.

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@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
You really know how to pick them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That%3F

A blog instigated by a climate change denier, yep, REAL authentic and unbiased.
In other words, you failed to prove it wrong.

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@Metal-Brain said
In other words, you failed to prove it wrong.
Fairies and elves live at the bottom of the pond in my garden. Prove me wrong.

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@moonbus said
Fairies and elves live at the bottom of the pond in my garden. Prove me wrong.
Sure, but you have to allow me to follow through with the complete scientific method. Are you willing to live up to that reasonable standard?

The ice core samples proved that temps cause CO2 levels to rise, not the other way around. Why do you claim CO2 causes warming without evidence? Did you complete the scientific method? Nope.

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@Metal-Brain
Let's see your science paper proving rising temps cause CO2 rise.

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11659-climate-myths-ice-cores-show-co2-increases-lag-behind-temperature-rises-disproving-the-link-to-global-warming/

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21691

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@Metal-Brain
Here is the answer to that charge: Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ice-core-data-help-solve/#:~:text=The%20data%2C%20covering%20the%20end,as%20much%20as%201%2C400%20years.

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@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
Here is the answer to that charge: Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ice-core-data-help-solve/#:~:text=The%20data%2C%20covering%20the%20end,as%20much%20as%201%2C400%20years.
Are you claiming the Journal Nature is wrong?

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21691

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@Metal-Brain
I gather you didn't bother to read the SA article which explains WHY it LOOKED like temp rise came first.
But I have no doubt even if you did read it which I doubt you ever will but suppose by some mysterious chance you do the goalpost will just be moved and a new article by Bratfart of some other ultrarightwingnut job will come out.

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@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
I gather you didn't bother to read the SA article which explains WHY it LOOKED like temp rise came first.
But I have no doubt even if you did read it which I doubt you ever will but suppose by some mysterious chance you do the goalpost will just be moved and a new article by Bratfart of some other ultrarightwingnut job will come out.
So SA trumps the most respected science journal in the world? You are an idiot.
You do not respect science. Your political bias rejects science.

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@Metal-Brain
Good luck with your science PHD you must be working on.

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@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
Good luck with your science PHD you must be working on.
Looks like some Simple Simons don't realize that Scientific American only prints articles about papers published sometime earlier in peer-reviewed academic journals. In the case of the Scientific American article you link to, I note that it reports on findings published originally in Science, a peer-reviewed academic journal of high repute.

This is an interesting bit from the article:
The wide margin of error in the EPICA core data is due to the way air gets trapped in layers of ice. Snowpack becomes progressively denser from the surface down to around 100 meters, where it forms solid ice. Scientists use air trapped in the ice to determine the CO2 levels of past climates, whereas they use the ice itself to determine temperature. But because air diffuses rapidly through the ice pack, those air bubbles are younger than the ice surrounding them. This means that in places with little snowfall—like the Dome C ice core—the age difference between gas and ice can be thousands of years.

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@Soothfast
Yep, but of course since Metal addled brain is SO smart he will never accept that result. Temperature ALWAYS precedes CO2, never the other way round.

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@Metal-Brain said
Sure, but you have to allow me to follow through with the complete scientific method. Are you willing to live up to that reasonable standard?

The ice core samples proved that temps cause CO2 levels to rise, not the other way around. Why do you claim CO2 causes warming without evidence? Did you complete the scientific method? Nope.
The evidence that increased CO2 levels cause warming is enormous and comes from many different disciplines, from geology to physics and astronomy.

If you want to refute a standard theory, it is not logical to use obscure historical data with multiple possible interpretations. Simple experiments can show that higher concentrations of CO2 trap heat energy from sunlight.

Also, your claim that warming causes CO2 levels to rise does not negate the opposite from also being true.

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