"Eric Swanson" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

A lag of 800-1,000 years might mean that recent rise in CO2
is a
response to Medieval Warm Period.

It's this "theory" of yours that I find not even remotely plausible and
prompted my reply to this thread. What happened during the so-called WMP
has
nothing to do with today's ongoing increase in CO2, AIUI. You have posted
a
notion that has no merit, which I think you realize as you have not
provided
any scientific foundation for the claim.

It's unlikely that Steve really thinks this is the case, but regardless
there is another big problem with that notion, and that is the magnitude of
the CO2 rise now vs the magnitude of the temperature rise in the MWP.
Looking he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C...ide_400kyr.png
if one really wants to claim the mechanism for CO2 rise now is the same
lagged response as the other rises in the glacial record one would have to
think that the MWP was a ~10oC skyrocketing of global temps rather than a
~1oC bump.

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