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Ron Johnson: “CO2 isn't the leading indicator, it's the lagging indicator…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Whitehouse Introduces Resolution To Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real–Then Ron Johnson Blocks It

Published | Video Starts at 17:52

Within that data set of Pettit et al. Not very well publicized, kind of understated. They say, well this doesn't really mean anything is the fact that CO2 isn't the leading indicator, it's the lagging indicator. First temperature rises or falls and then CO2 either rises or falls approximately about 800 to 1000 year lag. So they try and you know, the climate alarm is trying to put this, oh, look at CO2 is up causing temperature. No, temperatures rose and then CO2 rose. (17:52–18:10)

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Asserts that CO2 levels lag behind temperature changes by 800 to 1000 years.

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