«Contrary to claims of a scientific consensus that human activity is
the principal temperature driver, there are now many published reports and papers strongly disputing the IPCC analysis, including several by eminent Australian scientists.
Not exact matches
If that does not happen, then we can only conclude that something other than the state of the atmosphere is the
principal driver of oceanic
temperatures.
At present, atmospheric
temperature is decreasing and CO2 is increasing again showing that CO2 is not the
principal driver of climate change.
By even countenancing the idea that there is a down and upswing you have already admitted that the
principal driver of the recent (1975 - 1998)
temperature increase is not dominated by CO2.
Because the
drivers of surface
temperatures and climate are multifaceted and somewhat complex, Victor invokes «Occam's razor» like it is some magical
principal that prevents the physical world from being complex.