My jaw drops at your reply.
Firstly, the idea that a few hundred ppm of CO2 can substantially alter the climate is not settled science.
Cosserat, if you removed all CO2 from the air the average temperature on the Earth would rather quickly drop below freezing.
I don't see how you can say the average rate of temperature increase per century in 0.4C when the increase since 1900 has been a bit over 0.8C. And I don't see how you can claim there hasn't been any warming in 15 years when the warmest years on record were 2005 and 2010 and the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998.
Yes, 5 ppm/year was overstated but the atmospheric CO2 curve is not strictly linear but has curved upwards over time. The current rate is closer to 3 ppm/year than 1.5 ppm/year. Scientists have estimated with BAU that we will have doubled CO2 from the starting 280 ppm to 560 ppm sometime in the 2070's.
BTW, uranium is not a fossil fuel but I'm sure you knew that.
