How many keys are you offering ? <| sep |> Then dont leave others guessing at what in the hell you might mean . <| sep |> Definitely . It was the primary inspiration for this series . Sadly , it has been a couple of years since they last did one so I figured maybe I can help fill the void . <| sep |> This needs to be a Gen 8 Pokemon . No questions <| sep |> However , the main error Evans makes here is to claim that climate sensitivity is simply a number churned out by climate models . In reality , climate scientists have used many different lines of evidence to create numerous independent estimates of the planet ' s climate sensitivity . These include not just climate models , but also empirical observational data Hot spot ignorance exhibited by EvansWhere to begin ? First of all , the ' hot spot ' is a predicted consequence of any surface warming , regardless of the cause , based on fundamental atmospheric physics as we have previously explained . It ' s true that climate models predict the ' hot spot ' will form , because models are based on that fundamental atmospheric physics . So ultimately Evans ' beef is not with climate models , but with the physics of the moist adiabatic lapse rate i . e . see Bengtsson and Hodges . And a misunderstanding of feedbackEvans of course provides no evidence for his proclaimed warming dampening a . k . a . negative feedback and low climate sensitivity . However , his claim that the climate system would be unstable otherwise is simply untrue . Each feedback accounts for a limited amount of energy and additional warming , and thus positive feedbacks will not necessarily lead to an unstable system with runaway warming . And the cherry pickingEvans proceeds to commit the common error of cherrypicking shortterm temperature changes . The satellites say the hottest recent year was 1998 , and that since 2001 the global temperature has levelled off . Even in the satellites , which do not cover the poles where warming is greatest , 2010 was statistically tied with 1998 as the hottest year on record . This despite the fact that 1998 had one of the strongest El Nio events in a century , and the effects of El Nio are amplified in the satellite temperature record . Further , although the timeframes are too short to be statistically meaningful , the satellite trends since 1998 and 2001 are both positive , and the planet continues to warmAnd your argumentEvans then attempts to claim we ' re just recovering from the Little Ice Age LIAThe Earth has been in a warming trend since the depth of the Little Ice Age around 1680 . Human emissions of carbon dioxide were negligible before 1850 and have nearly all come after the Second World War , so human carbon dioxide cannot possibly have caused the trend . Firstly , almost all of the warming since 1680 has occurred over the past 100 years . Secondly , the planet doesn ' t just warm and cool magically . There has to be a physical mechanism causing every temperature change , and the factors which caused the LIA cooling are not causing the current warming . The physical evidence clearly shows that carbon dioxide is causing the current warming trend .