@phil_stevens

I've studied climate science since 1992 during my PhD research in Alaska and Siberia. I've published professionally on climate correlates of human population movements from Siberia to Greenland. I've published results of my dendrochronological and dendroclimatological research.

"Climate" is a complex adaptive system in which each component can act in independent, capricious and unexpected (or unimagined), fundamentally unpredictable ways. Climate dynamics are not linear, meaning one cannot predict the outcome of any action with any significant degree of certainty.

The fact that proxy ice core records indicate that the effective 200 year running average of CO2 concentrations in air bubbles trapped in ice core samples are measured at 280 ppm says nothing about the processes that resulted in the ice bubbles, nor the complex processes that result in observed global average surface temperature instrumental records.

Unfortunately, popularized science articles in the mainstream press are written by those who do not understand complexity, nor do government staff, politicians and the general public. So it's no wonder that the popular impression of "climate" is that CO2 is a thermostat that regulates global climate.

And that is pure misinformation unsupported by any evidence.

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