Humans are the main cause of global warming

Thanks to Ron-Paul for a well written response. Correlation between CO2 and Temperature The records have shown strong correlations between climate and CO2 levels, as seen in the graph at [1]. "The world cooled from 1940-1970." Your source for this is not accurate, and is shown to be a misrepresentation of temperature records.[2] As shown, CO2 does correlate to the temperature records, so this argument is refuted. I.i The Rest of The Solar System The warming on Mars can be caused by reasons other than the Sun. Jeffery Plaut, a scientist from NASA, said "It"s believed that what drives climate change on Mars are orbital variations, the Earth also goes through orbital variations similar to that of Mars."[3] The warming on Triton, could be the result of an extreme southern summer on the moon, a season that occurs every few hundred years, as well as possible changes in the makeup of surface ice that caused it to absorb more of the Sun"s heat. [3] As you can see, there are other possible explanations for this, not just the sun. Earthly Causes "When examining the temperature and CO2 data, the correlation is striking. CO2 only correlates on a .44 scale (r = .44). This means the correlation rates from "fair" to "poor", which is bad news for an alarmist. It shows the correlation is not very strong." The cosmic rays only correlate at an 0.31-0.47, as stated by you, but anyways I'll go on. "The correlation between the two main ocean currents, PDO and AMO, is particularly striking. The correlation is .83, the paper argues the correlation is in the "good" range, showing promise for this factor in the modern warming. It also shows its R2 is stronger then the CO2 correlation by a factor of almost two. The scientific paper then examines data within the last ten years, the results? A CO2 correlation is no match at all. The correlation is only 0.02. (r = 0.02). If CO2 was the main driver of climate, then why isn"t the correlation higher in the past century, and so low within the last decade?" The paper, however, did not give a 10 years for PDO and AMO, so there is no comparison. We need the 10-year for PDO and AMO for actual comparison. The Position In Galaxy & Cosmic Rays First, I have not taken the quote out of context, only shortened it for the word limit. Anyways, I'll continue. If you look at my edited version at [4], you will see that it doesn't correlate much. Plus, the lower chart removed the linear trend (Caused by CO2 increases, possibly, as CO2 does correlate to the climate [1] and it increased by 2 ppm/yr from 2000-2009[5]), causing it to look more "correlated", which is just a result of editing. Medieval Warm Period This period has very little temperature records, and the temperature may be below the temperature now. Wikipedia said that despite substantial uncertainties, the warmest period of the last 2,000 years prior to the 20th century very likely occurred between 950 and 1100, but temperatures were probably between 0.1 "C and 0.2 "C below the 1961 to 1990 mean and significantly below the level shown by instrumental data after 1980. [6] Sunspots An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.[7] While there is not yet a definitive link between solar sunspot activity and global temperatures, the scientists conducting the solar activity study believe that global greenhouse gas emissions would prevent any possible cold snap.[8] From this information, the globe should be cold now, but 2011 was the warmest La Ni"a year in the period from 1950 to 2011. [8] [1]http://www.grida.no... [2]http://www.durangobill.com... [3]http://www.livescience.com... [4]http://jh1234l.weebly.com... [5]http://en.wikipedia.org... [6]http://en.wikipedia.org... [7]http://science.nasa.gov... [8]http://en.wikipedia.org...