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I've heard so many times, how human contribution of CO2 is insignificant comparing to: Sun (already debunked by NASA), then Volcanoes. And just recently, that oceans are the biggest contributor. I guess this will be debunked soon too. And even if not, how deniers can explain constant raise of CO2 ppm starting from industrial era? And how many more myths has to be debunked, before we get serious about climate change and start to act accordingly?

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How do you explain temperatures dropping from 1940-1975 during the same time that CO2 in the atmosphere was increasing faster than ever before?

The derivative of carbon dioxide concentration isn't the derivative of global temperature??

To sum up, anthropogenic sulfur emissions appear to be the main cause of the mid-century cooling. These emissions decreased the mean global surface temperature by approximately 0.5°C during this period, while anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions caused a warming of approximately 0.4°C. Therefore, even though greenhouse gas emissions continued to have a warming effect during this period, it was more than offset (hidden) by anthropogenic aerosol emissions, until those emissions were brought under control by government intervention while greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase unabated.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-cen...

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