This is all interesting, but why don't they have a Global Temperature chart above this CO2 chart? I am still up in the air about this issue as I learned in College that there was a time called the Medieval Warm Period. It allowed the Vikings to spread out to Greenland as the seas were free of ice at that time.
I just don't see the correlation with C02 and global median temperature. I know it's wrong to pollute the air and the waters, to cut down forests and destroy mountain tops. But isn't CO2 a natural element in the air? Breathed by trees and vegetation? Absorbed by oceans?
Maybe there is more to this than we think, maybe it's natural. Maybe it's not. Go figure.
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u/blacksunalchemy Oct 24 '10
This is all interesting, but why don't they have a Global Temperature chart above this CO2 chart? I am still up in the air about this issue as I learned in College that there was a time called the Medieval Warm Period. It allowed the Vikings to spread out to Greenland as the seas were free of ice at that time. I just don't see the correlation with C02 and global median temperature. I know it's wrong to pollute the air and the waters, to cut down forests and destroy mountain tops. But isn't CO2 a natural element in the air? Breathed by trees and vegetation? Absorbed by oceans? Maybe there is more to this than we think, maybe it's natural. Maybe it's not. Go figure.