Robin van Spaandonk wrote: "The last few decades have shown us that the current trend <...>"
Please see statement #2 in my original post. I made it in part to show there's no such thing as a current trend. You may say some figures show it has warmed and perhaps indeed it has, just like the guy in #2 knows he won some money. But he's not currently in a winning trend - he just thinks he is because that's human nature and he has his special troll in his pocket. Currently in reality it may be warming, cooling, or staying about the same. The isolation and examination of these feedback systems separate from the total global reality may be interesting and worth studying, but they aren't very useful for making a case for global AGW - it still remains that it has not been shown that the human contribution of CO2 to those systems accounts for any changes represented in the tiny historical data sets we have available. The guy in my statement #2 has a huge advantage over the guy in #3 - he can actually count up accurately, but he still doesn't know what's going to happen next or what's guiding his fortunes. All the worse for #3 because he has so few and inaccurate numbers that he might as well not have any - so he's basically just making things up as he feels like it, as is clearly the actual case with him. So with regard to the more important subject of the actions we should or should not be taking, I addressed that in other posts. All that stuff above hardly has any relevance anyway, as implied by original statement #1. - Rick
