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by socialist_coder 3631 days ago
No one is misunderstanding you, you are just wrong.

Even if you were right and we were in a "warming" phase, the velocity of the change should be on a geological scale; that is, very very very tiny. We are seeing rates of warming orders of magnitudes higher, which cannot possibly be anything but man made.
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SeanDav 3631 days ago
At no point have I mentioned scale of change or rate of change. That is irrelevant to the point I am making: that during a warming phase, average temperatures will be the highest they have ever been at the end of the time period under consideration. So a result confirming that is hardly news.

4000 years ago there were still mammoths and far greater glaciation than now, so clearly climate has been warming over the last few thousand years.

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SamPhillips 3627 days ago
Sure. But if someone is saying "the house is on fire" and you reply, "Ah, Yes, clearly we should expect it to be getting warmer, after all it's springtime now", it's not much of addition to the conversation.
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