(06-02-2017, 11:47 PM)Sir_Die_alot Wrote: At this point, we can be reasonably secure that dire climate predictions often made are significantly over stated at best.
The prediction is, and has been for about forty years, that increasing atmospheric CO2 will cause slow (but nearly irreversible) warming. Atmospheric CO2 has been consistently increasing. Temperatures have been consistently warming, at least approximately on pace with what was predicted. The surface is about 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was in the 1950s, and the last few years have been the warmest on record, decisively beating the 1998 peak that anchored the supposed "pause" in warming.
What grounds do you have for dismissing this?
-Jester