[Iron Greasel]

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: 4. How evidence proves that CO2 follows and does not precede temperature change

I'm still too lazy to watch it (sorry!) but since you've seen it, could you explain this bit? I thought that it was an indisputable fact that pumping carbon from underground and burning it into CO₂ will inevitably raise the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere, unless carbon is simultaneously removed from the atmosphere by, say, forestation. "Follows" gives the image that the increased amount of carbon dioxide is caused by global warming. Or is the amount of CO₂ increasing even faster than human activity would allow?