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Originally Posted by Nate the great
No, Harry, you are wrong. Assuming higher CO2 concentration causes higher temperature, if year A has higher CO2 than year B, then Year A should have a higher temperature. The year to year temperatures do not support that claim.
The yearly temperature data does not support the claim that higher CO2 causes higher temperature. There must be other causes.
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From the middle of winter to the middle of summer, the trend is for higher daily temperatures but every day is not always warmer than the previous one. There is a scatter in the data from various sources on top of the underlying seasonal trend. The same is true in the mean global temperature data particularly since it is the result of a finite number of discrete measurements. The scatter is not evidence that the underlying trend doesn't exist.