Re: [Phys-L] just for fun?

[Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

It might be more obvious if the mechanism for the CO2 changes in the 
historical past ( with the rather long lags) were better understood, but 
from my reading of the web site you earlier suggested, that is still an 
area where much more work is needed.

rwt


On 1/4/2014 2:36 PM, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
> It's not the same, but it IS a little surprising that the perfectly obvious implications of a positive feedback mechanism aren't more, well, perfectly obvious.
>
> John Mallinckrodt
> Cal Poly Pomona
>
> On Jan 4, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Richard Tarara wrote:
>
> > Sorry if I'm too stupid to see that if A happens first then B happens is
> > exactly the same as if B happens first then A happens, which seems to be
> > your reading of the historical data which is what one would have to
> > believe to be satisfied with Gore's presentation.  Fine...I give up (but
> > you might want to watch the film again ;-) )
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