Are you saying its a synergistic reaction whereby the gases we emit are exponentially affecting the natural variances?

I used catalyst as a simile.

If the gases increase the effects of the natural rise in temperatures then the gases can be related to catalyst by making the final product much stronger than what would have happened naturally.

The differences is that a catalyst usually speeds up a reaction instead of strengthening it and a catalyst has no effect on the actual reaction while the gases will have an effect.

From Business Week.

Syncronized Choas proposed as predictive of climate change.
http://www.volny.cz/lumidek/tsonis-grl.pdf

Oh and
CO2 is niet de grote boosdoener bij de klimaatverandering en de opwarming van de aarde. Dat is de conclusie van een groot wetenschappelijk onderzoek van het KMI dat deze zomer nog wordt gepubliceerd.
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It's a least another piece of the puzzle. I doubt like hell there is one lone answer to the climate's future.

And forget the second link, they aren't even smart enough to speak English.:bolt:

Dare I say, Bruce, that you'll get in Dutch?

Heh, often when I see "synthetic", I think "made from petroleum". What is synthetic jet fuel synthesized from?

The Fischer-Tropsch process is a catalyzed chemical reaction in which carbon monoxide and hydrogen are converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. Typical catalysts used are based on iron and cobalt. The principal purpose of this process is to produce a synthetic petroleum substitute, typically from coal or natural gas, for use as synthetic lubrication oil or as synthetic fuel.

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I would think they will certify others, like the pond scum fuel, as they become available.

I read that as "catalyst as a smilie" and I was thinking...where's that smilie, never saw that one? [/unrelated levity]

No Arctic ice cap by the summer of 2030?

Good, it'll make it harder for the terrorists to come over the pole and easier to get at the Arctic oil reserves for our Hummers.

Bruce, did you mean to post that here, or in the Sexually Ambiguous Words thread?

...pretty expensive hummer

A decade later, how have our views on Global Warming shifted? A decade is an insignificant blip on any meaningful data set, but how have the intervening years of "muddy the waters" versus "nails in the coffin" science/news influenced us all?

Would it have mattered if we'd known that Exxon has known about human-caused climate change since 1977?