Quote Originally Posted by poker_pup

The earth cooled between about 1940 and about 1970. The earth warmed between about 1970 and about 1998. We are currently in a cooling phase. Did mankind only emit CO2 between 1970 and 1998?
This is exactly my point. It's not like you're the first person to bring this up. Climatologists and geophysicists and all the relevant professions have already looked at this and provided their expert analysis

Climate change is not linear. Just like a poker graph, is a winning player not a winner because he has one bad day? Likewise, you cannot look at isolated incidences and project to the whole. Climate science deals with scales along the entirety of geologic history, the last 600k years, pre-industry, etc. A very fundamental aspect of good science is sample size. Your perspective is ignoring sample size

As more of a direct answer: solar activity, el nino, la nina, lag effects, volcanic activity, and several other factors I cannot think of on the top of my head. Those are all responsible for up or down spikes in global trends, and they're also predicted.

If in 2010 we had reduced sun spots, la nina, and a couple massive volcanic eruptions we would see global temperatures plummet for a period of time, and all the uneducated would scream about how global warming is not real. They would also be ignoring the fact that evaluating global climate on that scale is equivalent to evaluating a 100 meter sprint on the first .01 seconds of the race

You have yet to explain how CO2 is not a heating atmospheric gas, how current CO2 levels are not about ~35% above pre-industrial levels, and provided an explanation for this other than fossil fuel burning.

Seriously, explain your position with data and logic. So far you have provided none while I have provided assloads. You can't just wave your hand and say it's all wrong when the presented evidence shows the opposite.

Again, explain to me why physics and chemistry are wrong. Please. I really want to know about how CO2 is not a GHG and how we are not pumping masses of it into the atmosphere.

OTOH, I think I'm gonna start going the denier route. From now on I'm gonna walk up to dudes and kick them in the balls then when they're like WTF why did you kick me in the balls I'll just be like yeah I didn't kick you in the balls then I'll walk away and fistpump my ability to claim that reality is not reality and feel like I did a good job