The Flimsiness of the Theory That CO2 Is Responsible for Global Warming

from interview with Dennis Avery, author of Global Warming Every 1500 Years:

Q: Tell us about when the greenhouse gasses started surging in this century and when the temperature went up. They didn't happen at the same time, did they?

A: Well, if this were a human caused warming, it should have started about 1940 and trended strongly upward as global industrialization followed World War 2. That isn't what happened. The warming started about 1850. We had a surge of warming from about 1850 to 1870. We had another surge from 1916 to 1940 and then, when the greenhouse gasses began to spew from the factories, the temperatures went down for 35 years. 1976 to 1998, we had another surge of warming, but we've had no warming in the last 8 years. So, what we have is an erratic warming that started too soon to be blamed on humans and is not following in the footsteps of the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

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