Wrong again buckoh. Yes it is that simple. The levels of CO2 do control the earth's temperature. At least as important as solar variations. You should try reading some recent science about it. You seem to be stuck with thirty year old red snapper.
then what peer reviewed science do you have that explains that although co2 levels follow (not lead) the change in ocean temperature, co2 causes the change? Its pretty simple really. until you post peer reviewed science showing that man made co2 causes warming... everything you and your team says is speculation at best.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n3/full/nclimate2938.html John C. Fyfe, Gerald A. Meehl, Matthew H. England, Michael E. Mann, Benjamin D. Santer, Gregory M. Flato, Ed Hawkins, Nathan P. Gillett, Shang-Ping Xie, Yu Kosaka & Neil C. Swart It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...ampaigners-say-global-warming-IS-slowing-down The team of experts, including scientist Michael Mann ,who helped draw up the initial figures of how much the earth was likely to heat up by, say they have disproved evidence used by world leaders before the Paris climate change conference in November Those figures disputed there had been a major slow down in temperature increases in the 17 years from 1997 to 2014. In a paper entitled Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists, instead claimed that global warming slowed down during a period that saw an increase in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Their findings contradict a study produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last year which claimed the “Pause” did not happen. "This raises interesting science questions: are we living in a world less sensitive to GHG forcing. "Our results support previous findings of a reduced rate of surface warming over the 2001–2014 period — a period in which anthropogenic forcing increased at a relatively constant rate. Recent research "Based on our analysis, which relies on physical understanding of the key processes and forcings involved, we find that the rate of warming over the early twenty-first century is slower than that of the previous few decades.
What!? CO2 levels are "at least as important as solar variations"? That is a major change to your dogma. Thank you for at least conceding that much.
Your chart's no good. There was zero slowdown in the rate of the heat content increase of planet earth. In fact it accelerated. This is the chart. Up to date, best current data.
I haven't conceded anything. I always knew it. Solar variation is NOT causing the current sudden very high rate of warming. CO2 -and the other ghgs - is causing it.