@chris ho-stuart
The problem with your reliance on ‘the physics’, is that the pesky climate doesn’t seem to be behaving the way your theory tells us it should. And I’m disappointed to see that your response isn’t to go back to the physics and see what you’ve missed, but merely to reiterate that it’ll all work out fine in the end.
H’mm
Scientific history is littered with examples of ‘comprehensive theories’ that were 90%+ correct, but with just a few little problems in some dark corners. And it is the investigation of those troublesome phenomena that can lead to interesting and new insights. Einstein’s work on the photo-electric effect and discovery of the quantised nature of radiation is a classic example.
So colour me unconvinced that you really understand this climate system. And colour me even more unconvinced by the argument that though it is impossible to forecast the climate 5 years away, you are perfectly capable of doing so 50 or 100 years out.
Unless and until you can give a better understanding of the recent plateau in temperatures it seems to me that you have a lot more work to do. And that ‘It’s the carbon dioxide, stupid!’, may prove to be a far too simplistic theory.
