On entering the climate arena

Bishop Hill
These findings were presented at a small conference at one of the major learned societies. You must remember that I am not a climatologist or bona fide weather expert, and approached this topic from a purely statistical point of view. I mentioned that according to the proxy record the temperature was considerably lower that it has been and that it is decreasing. I then proceeded to comment on the lag between temperature and carbon dioxide and explained that it seemed 'incorrect' to blame temperature rises on CO₂ when clearly the CO₂ rises lag temperature increases, also noting that you can't really develop a mathematical time-dependent model that allows CO₂ to force temperature rise, when the temperature has stopped rising up to 1000 years prior to the CO₂ rising. There must be something 'missing' that we don't understand.   ...."