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[Tony @TonyPrep]

It's mixed. Some months are lower than 1998, some months are higher (in the UAH data set, which doesn't show surface temperatures). There have been other times of apparently falling temperatures but the trend continues up.

https://t.co/AvLDgVCkeF

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@Veritatem2021 @LuxLon95 It's mixed. Some months are lower than 1998, some months are higher (in the UAH data set, which doesn't show surface temperatures). There have been other times of apparently falling temperatures but the trend continues up.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@Veritatem2021 @LuxLon95 You're misrepresenting what he wrote. Such misrepresentation doesn't help your argument.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@Veritatem2021 @LuxLon95 Of course. But warming and cooling have impacts. It's what is happening now that should concern us.

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@Veritatem2021 @LuxLon95 Yeah, we've seen that before though, haven't we? What ultimately happened?

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@Veritatem2021 @LuxLon95 In the UAH data set (not surface temperature) April and February averages were higher in 1998 but January and March average temperatures were higher in 2026.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JimBowersclimb @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe It seems you haven't taken in any of the comments on this, instead just repeating the same words over and over again.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JimBowersclimb @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe The implication is that human caused emissions have no impact. But CO2 rises, at least in part (but maybe wholly) because of human emissions.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JimBowersclimb @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe You dismissed the rise in CO2 causing current warming by claiming any rise in CO2 follows warming.

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@GeneralRipper22 @JimBowersclimb @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe Can you explain how increased temperatures 800 years ago can cause humans to emit more CO2? (by the way, the MWP was not global, different regions warmed at different times during that period)

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe Ice ages don't usually end due the CO2 rises but the warming releases more CO2, then temperature rises in lock-step with CO2, due to positive feedbacks, until something stops that rise in CO2. https://t.co/rwWurlGqwE

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe What's not true? Temperature proxies in an ice core refer to temperatures at the location of the ice core. CO2 concentrations trapped in the ice core are closer to the global concentration due to its being a well mixed gas.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@georgehlowrey What do you think might cause a temperature decline to another ice age, if human released CO2 didn't happen?

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe No need to apologise. You don't seem to realise that ice core data only contains information about the place that the ice core comes from. See my previous post.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@GeneralRipper22 @JibbaJabb @zoeharcombe Ice core data can't show that. Ice cores are in one location on the planet. The can show CO2 levels for the planet, as that gas is well mixed but they can't show the global temperature. There is also positive feedback; warming due to CO2 leads to more CO2 leads to more warming.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@RusselNorman You should be advocating for reduced energy use, not an energy transition.

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@adam_dorr There's this little thing about planetary limits. Not just the identified planetary boundaries, of which we've crossed seven of nine, but also resource limits and complexity limits. Technological advancement will slow, eventually, anyway. That's just physics.

[Tony @TonyPrep]

@EVCurveFuturist Maybe, but in 12 years, that 40% will be part of the total energy required. So the transition definitely will need to be 40% higher than you imagine, very quickly, and then constantly increased. So there is no real fallacy. Without reducing energy, renewables will have to do more

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@ECIU_UK @JimSkeaIPCC Yes, though, if you want to stop emissions, you have to accept that our modern way of life must also stop. Fossil fuels are imbedded in the life-cycle of everything we use and do in a modern economy. They enable the modern economy.

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@whereisaaron @JordanEVGuy I just wish it wasn't touted as "clean energy" which it most certainly is not. But, yes, probably a big improvement overall, without addressing the other environmental problems or continued emissions.