Bman, the reason I don't bother to support things when talking to you is that you keep changing your argument, or MY argument, every single time. For example, when did I say the current warming would be "devastating?" Your problem is that you take relatively moderate statements and extrapolate them into absurdities.
Yes, because you're not looking at the subtext and implications of what you're saying...
What you're not seeing is how your moderate statements have certain implications...
I mean, you didn't have to overtly say that climate change is devastating... you make the point that CO2 causes climate change and then use that as a subtext to say that climate change was a disservice to dinosaurs.... WELL, when you make both those statements separately but simultaneously then it becomes an absurd point.
The reality is that CO2 caused warming is in the fractions of a degree of change, and it requires you to ignore the times where CO2 levels dropped yet there was an increase in temperature, points where CO2 increased yet temperatures dropped, or when CO2 remains fairly stable and there's a drastic spike in the temperature...
I never once said that CO2 is the only factor in temperature, or that manmade CO2 affected prehistoric climate, or anything of that nature. I've even, several times now, told you directly the opposite. Yet you keep bringing it up.
Because you make a statement about climate hurting dinosaurs, you make points about CO2 being the "only explanation" (that doesn't even make sense when you really look at the numbers), and all the other points... and so I point these out, and since it's not the same effect to simply repeat your point I add a layer of extrapolation to REALLY point out the flaws in the logic.
Flat out. CO2 is not the only variable. Period. Do you still contend this is my argument? Are you still going to debate dishonestly?
Exactly Co2 is NOT THE ONLY VARIABLE!!! It's not the only variable in why the temperatures have gone up the past 150 years as a general trend, it's not the only variable at ANY POINT. EVER!!! That does NOT change that there IS a correlation between temperature and climate, but that is NOT the same as stating a cause-effect relationship.
Hell, science doesn't even understand all the variables at play in a way that you could have an all inclusive list... nevermind an understanding to associate the extent to which each variable might influence.
Add to that the fact that NONE of the projections have come true except in the sense that by having a wide-enough margin of error that they can't be shown wrong untill at least 5-10 years later when they can just pretend they never made the false prophecy and just publish a new report showing how bad things are getting...
Kinda like how coastal cities, according to the projections are already supposed to be under several feet of ocean water because the ice caps were going to melt, and how there's not going to be any more snow in england and all sorts of other nonsense that manages to get published.