Dear WeatherCat climate watchers,
The Register has continued it counter-attack against the assertion that human-caused CO
2 emissions are causing climate change through global warming:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/19/no_scientific_consensus_on_2014_hottest_year_on_record_claims/Now these guys have an ax to grind so
"caveat emptor." Even so they make some points that are scientifically accurate and raise some questions worth pondering. One point that surprised me is that 2014 is the hottest year since 1880, but over 1/3 of the CO
2 emissions have occurred since about 1880. The effect of CO
2 as an atmospheric blanket is most certainly non-linear; nonetheless, it is surprising that so much additional CO
2 in the past 134 years would have such a minor effect of global temperature.
So I'm left scratching my head . . . . .
Cheers, Edouard