Whatever it is, it's not very relevant in the global warming discussion, because climate != weather.
Actually, it's quite relevant, for climate is simply the integral of weather of a pre-determined amount of time. NASA lays this out quite nicely. Note as a result of selecting a different time basis for the integration, one can have significant - or no - change in climate.
Climate IS, in fact, weather - just over a longer scale
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I say look at giant holes of methane out-gassing in Siberia. Or the giant areas of highly acidic oceans that lack enough oxygen for fish to survive. Both of these are from us burning fossil fuels.
Really? Nothing to do with the fact we're coming out of an ice age, and that we're still lower than the interglacial temperatures prior to the last ice age? We're seeing these things because of fossil fuels, not for any other reason?
And may I repeat: Historically low total tax as a percentage of GDP. Far lower than during the 50's and 60's, when we experienced the fastest sustained GDP growth rate of any first world country *ever*. So any Laffer Curve argument you want to make would just make you sound ignorant.
Really? Doesn't seem that that far out of line. Now taxation per capita, adjusted for inflation, is way up. And spending is even growing faster...
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