Duke, CO2 is a greenhouse gas. There's your causal relationship to go along with the correlation. You're really being slow here.

The rest of your post is just to distract from your elementary error--or are you being intentionally deceptive?

Allan:

If they cannot tell us what the weather will be tomorrow, how can they tell us what is going on in the far future, and what is causing it.

Knowing how a slot machine works does not give one the ability to predict the result of the next pull. Changes in the relative frequency of a given combination can be predicted reliably; indeed, this is how they can adjust the payouts. It's similar with the weather and climate. Global temperatures appear to be rising along with the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Although meteorologists are a lot better at predicting the weather than you say they are, they still are less able to predict short-term local fluctuations than they are long-term climate trends.

Remember, they have discoved global warming also going on on mars, Saturn and io. It seems to be a solar system thing all over.

The sources you cited on those warmings did not substantiate your assertion that greenhouse gases don't have any effect on Earth's temperature. They also did not substantiate your claim that this is a solar system wide phenomenon. And direct measurements of solar radiation, also from your sources, indicated that if there was a rise, it could not account for most of the rise in Earth's temperature. But you will believe what pleases you.

And what if we are wrong, it is a natural cycle, and by doing something, we freeze the earth instead?

So now you think that we don't have the power to warm the Earth, but we might be able to freeze it? You're really grasping at straws here. But don't worry. If you're right, we're going to get warmer no matter what, because of the sun. And we'll still be increasing CO2 concentrations for a century or more even if we all go super-Kyoto tomorrow. The "anthropogenic global cooling" scenario you paint does not have anything going for it.

I did read a Scientific American article a year or so ago that claimed we'd be in an ice age now if not for AGW. Here's a source that agrees:

Quote:
"Isn't human-made global warming saving us from the next ice age?" Yes, but the gases that we have added to the atmosphere are already far more than needed for that purpose.
naturalscience.com/ns/art..._jeh2.html

I'm not saying that AGW is all bad, or even mostly bad. I'm saying it exists and too much of it too fast is worse than its happening a little slower. No one is demanding that you stop driving. I don't know why you guys are so hysterical about this. All we have to do is move the steering wheel a little and tap the brakes to keep from piling into the ditch, but you insist that there is no ditch, or that the steering wheel doesn't work, or whatever you have to say to keep yourselves from having to do something.