Group: humanities.philosophy.objectivism
From: David Schwartz
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: John Stossel talks about Global Warming

On Mar 27, 3:15 pm, TC wrote:

> Actually I just noticed the chart has an arrow indicating the
> present day CO2 value.

> It looks to me like the present day arrow is as far above the
> highest value in the past 650K years (excludiing today)
> as that high value is above the lowest value of the
> last 650K years.

> I think the word anomalous applies if not grossly
> anomalous.

You are correct. So then the question becomes, around what year did it
first become clear that this CO2 rise was anomalous over this
timeframe? The data I have points to about 1780. And, of course, 50
million years ago the CO2 level was about three times what it is now.

DS

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