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The blue curve is more highly correlated with the short - term fluctuations, and the green curve tracks the
longer term variations of the temperature series.
If the observation that CO2 lags temperature by 800 years is accurate, then debating short
term variations of atmospheric CO2 when compared to short term temperature variations of that atmosphere seems pointless.
In order to do that, they must account for daily, short - term and long -
term variations caused by different factors.
Apart from exact numbers, isn't his main error that he's looking too much at short
term variations instead of looking at the longer term trends and projections?
For example: Natural factors such as long -
term variations in solar radiation are causing the rise in worldwide average temperature.
My graph seems to show that practically all this short
term variation of CO2 appears quite clearly result of temperature, so i do nt agree.
There are no direct measurements of solar radiation on climatological time scales, but a variety of circumstantial evidence suggests that longer -
term variations do occur, perhaps with larger amplitudes than those found in the two most recent eleven - year Schwabe cycles.
That's too short to infer a robust conclusion, anyway, and maybe short -
term variations toward high temperature are not representative of the long - term warming induced by GHGs.
This confirms what was seen in the FFT analysis: HadSST3 is removing (or totally disrupting) the clear, long
term variation found in the climate record.
The long -
term variations track the envelope of group sunspot numbers and have amplitudes consistent with the range of Ca II brightness in Sun - like stars.
There will be short -
term variations from year to year — El Niño years are a bit hotter, La Niña years are a bit cooler — so not every year will set records.
Who in their right mind would try to correlate the relatively short
term variations with a single monotonically increasing (except for small inter-annual variations) function like increasing CO2?
But our main point does not depend on that and is robust: with any model and any reasonable data - derived forcing, the observed 20th Century warming trend can only be explained by anthropogenic greenhouse gases, while other factors can explain the shorter -
term variations around this trend.
Figure 11: Observed annual global temperature, unadjusted (pink) and adjusted for short -
term variations due to solar variability, volcanoes, and ENSO (red) as in Foster and Rahmstorf (2011).
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