The paper you provided a link to is very limited in scope and is confined to the last glacial termination. It’s accepted science that what ends the ice ages is a change in the Earth’s orbit and not an increase in atmospheric CO2. It states that in the article I had linked to (Deglaciation is not initiated by CO2 but by orbital cycles. However, this is what you said earlier:
“Ice core analysis has shown time and again that CO2 FOLLOWS all global warming.”
That is a false statement.
My apologies, I thought I was being quite generous giving you a link, so you wouldn’t have to find one on your own without going through Google.
I must have linked the wrong one. I took the time to look it up on the website and download it to my own internet accessible location. But since it gave me multiple returns, I must have downloaded the wrong one.
But before I take any more of my valuable time to help you understand, I would like to ask you a few questions:
1.). Do you believe in man-caused (anthropogenic global warming exists, and that it is caused by CO2 emissions from human activity?
2.). Do you dispute that rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere are a lagging indicator to atmospheric temperatures (that temperatures increase first, causing CO2 outgassing from the ocean) and that the lag time is between 200-1200 years?
I normally don’t discuss this issue with leftists because they are almost always ideologues who aren’t interested in facts, but I make the assumption that since you have an account on Free Republic, you aren’t simply a leftist, but someone who is interested in finding out the truth.
I believe that it is more technically correct to state that the Earth is in a long term (many millions of years) Ice Age punctuated periodically by short interglacial (warmer than the Ice Age average) periods. The glacial and interglacial periods appear to be initiated by orbital forcing (though there may be other causes as well.)
Certainly, humans did not cause the long record of interglacial periods, nor what appear to be the increasingly large swings in climate, as the overall Ice Age has progressed.
That said, the long term trend (40 million years or more) IS toward less CO2 in the atmosphere, and cooling. Earth might well be headed toward another “Snowball Earth” episode, such as you mention, or perhaps a “Slushball Earth”, unless something else intercedes.