CO2 lags temperature increase.

I don't doubt it. However, in a wider sense I wonder if telling a patient with terminal cancer that they have not got typhoid is really good news. Comorbidity as metaphor, and overderminism as elementary logical element both fuel my eager anticipation for the argument's being made explicit. A detective story with the resolution at the beginning is not much fun.

Characteristics about the human condition are not similar to climate. Your comment makes for a nice anthropomorphic appeal to emotion but not much else. In this case a detective story with a whole bunch of comic relief (or tail-chasing) can be quite a lot of fun.

Logical structures, the way we think, are implicit. There is a fair amount of useful appeal to analogy, metaphor etc in the rhetoric of fleshing such structures. And as a clue I mentioned 'overdeterminism' which is a bit of logical bone from the skeleton. I still believe a conclusion should be supported by an argument, and this belief is not an emotional one; indeed, one holds in mind as a possibility, that a conclusion stated firmly without argument is merely a psychologism.