The other issue is that rising temperatures can cause more CO2 to leave the oceans - where most of it lives - and move into the atmosphere. So, CO2 causes warming and warming causes CO2.
What does the data say? Well if we take a close look at the Vostok Ice Core data - that is the graph that Al Gore showed in his Inconvenient Truth film - the part with the cherry-picker, we see that warming always happens BEFORE the CO2 increase. That was already known when Gore made his film.
The implies to me that the temperature creates the CO2 change we see in nature and not the other way round. Also, it is not "just" before but several centuries before.
The other issue is that rising temperatures can cause more CO2 to leave the oceans - where most of it lives - and move into the atmosphere. So, CO2 causes warming and warming causes CO2.
What does the data say? Well if we take a close look at the Vostok Ice Core data - that is the graph that Al Gore showed in his Inconvenient Truth film - the part with the cherry-picker, we see that warming always happens BEFORE the CO2 increase. That was already known when Gore made his film.
The implies to me that the temperature creates the CO2 change we see in nature and not the other way round. Also, it is not "just" before but several centuries before.