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My view is that the global warming from increased CO2 is rather small and benign. The big reason for the hubub up to the early 2000’s was a bunch of natural warming in the 80’s and 90’s, first from solar and then from the ocean (which lagged the solar). The current lull in warming is not due to less solar (that’s a myth propagated by the alarmists) but because the natural warming cycle has ended and we now have negative PDO. The lowered solar of 2007-9 has yet to manifest in the atmosphere. It will appear from the ocean with a lag just like the warming.

[ETL]

"My view is that the global warming from increased CO2 is rather small and benign. The big reason for the hubub up to the early 2000’s was a bunch of natural warming in the 80’s and 90’s, first from solar and then from the ocean (which lagged the solar). The current lull in warming is not due to less solar (that’s a myth propagated by the alarmists) but because the natural warming cycle has ended and we now have negative PDO. The lowered solar of 2007-9 has yet to manifest in the atmosphere. It will appear from the ocean with a lag just like the warming."

Was this your view all along or have you recently reconsidered?