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But despite [the Gulf Stream], the summer of 2018 looks set to be one of the hottest on record.

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean as the North Atlantic Current.

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Gulf Stream

Hundreds of flowers across the UK are flowering earlier now than any time in 250 years.

Peak bloom time at Royal Botanical Gardens is normally around the last week of April or the first week of May.

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Cherry blossom

that atmospheric CO2 increase that we observe is a product of temperature increase, and not the other way around, meaning it is a product of natural variation...

During the late 20th century, a scientific consensus evolved that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause a substantial rise in global temperatures and changes to other parts of the climate system, with consequences for the environment and for human health.

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Greenhouse gas

'The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider.

There is widespread support for the IPCC in the scientific community, which is reflected in publications by other scientific bodies and experts.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The carbon footprint on wind [energy] is significant.

"The 11 Biggest Wind Farms and Wind Power Constructions That Reduce Carbon Footprint".

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Renewable energy

and three Nobel economic laureates support "direct investment in technology" rather than a carbon tax.

He also thinks that the rest of the world should impose a carbon-adjustment tax (a protectionist measure) on American exports that do not comply with global standard.

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Joseph Stiglitz

Various independent measurements of solar activity all confirm the sun has shown a slight cooling trend since 1978.

Since 1978, output from the Sun has been measured by satellites significantly more accurately than was previously possible from the surface.

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Attribution of recent climate change

Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says

Solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center came to the following conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum."

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Solar minimum

In 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase.

There is evidence of reversals in the prevailing polarity (meaning changes in cool surface waters versus warm surface waters within the region) of the oscillation occurring around 1925, 1947, and 1977; the last two reversals corresponded with dramatic shifts in salmon production regimes in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific decadal oscillation

The temperatures are expected to change by as much as 10 Fahrenheit degrees at different places of the globe.

As a result, the mean annual air temperature at sea level decreases by about 0.4 °C (0.7 °F) per degree of latitude from the equator.

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Earth

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will establish a 10 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 10 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2012.

Other plans include making society carbon neutral and using renewable energy, including solar, wind, and methane sources.

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Energy policy of the United States

...Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

Cumulative anthropogenic (i.e., human-emitted) emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel use are a major cause of global warming, and give some indication of which countries have contributed most to human-induced climate change.

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Greenhouse gas

No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary.

Global warming is the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system.

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Global warming

We expect to see record cold temperatures even during global warming.

This is much colder than the conditions that actually exist at the Earth's surface (the global mean surface temperature is about 14 °C).

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Global warming

The result did suggest the sea level was increasing in the western Pacific, but this was offset by a drop in the level near the Alaskan coast.

Five of the Solomon Islands have disappeared due to the combined effects of sea level rise and stronger trade winds that were pushing water into the Western Pacific.

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Sea level rise

This is called the "atmospheric greenhouse effect", and without it the Earth's surface would be much colder.

The climate is colder at high altitudes than at sea level because of the decreased air density.

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Earth

The MWP lasted from about 950 to 1250AD, and temperature records appear to show it was even hotter than today

Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that the Earth may have been slightly cooler globally (by 0.03 °C) than in the early and mid-20th century.

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Medieval Warm Period

The Rio Grande is a classic “feast or famine” river, with a dry year or two typically followed by a couple of wet years that allow for recovery.

s indicates at least three times as much rain in the wettest month of winter as in the driest month of summer.

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Köppen climate classification

the satellite sensors show less warming in the lower troposphere (approximately 10,000 feet above the earth’s surface) than is reported by surface temperature readings.

According to basic physical principles, the greenhouse effect produces warming of the lower atmosphere (the troposphere), but cooling of the upper atmosphere (the stratosphere).

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Global warming

Clouds provide negative feedback

The albedo of increased cloudiness cools the climate, resulting in a negative feedback; while the reflection of infrared radiation by clouds warms the climate, resulting in a positive feedback.

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Cloud feedback

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.

IPCC AR5 WG1 Summary for Policymakers 2013, p. 4: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.

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Global warming

For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards.

Since the direct temperature record is more accurate than the proxies (indeed, it is needed to calibrate them) it is used when available: i.e., from 1850 onwards.

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Temperature record of the past 1000 years

[Ice] is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

Sea ice extent expands annually in the Antarctic winter and most of this ice melts in the summer.

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Antarctica

Research has found a human influence on the climate of the past several decades ...

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is "extremely likely" that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming between 1951 and 2010.

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Attribution of recent climate change

Temperatures in the Southwest increased by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit (one degree Celsius) from 1901 to 2010, and some climate models forecast a total rise of six degrees or more by the end of this century.

In it was the prediction that on our current course the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees Fahrenheit (or about 3.9 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.

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Climate change in the United States

"Pollution; none of us are supporting putting substances into the atmosphere or the waterways that might be pollutants, but carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

In these modern designs, pollution from coal-fired power plants comes from the emission of gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide into the air, as well a significant volume of wastewater which may contain lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium, as well as arsenic, selenium and nitrogen compounds (nitrates and nitrites).

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Fossil fuel power station

“Federal scientists have documented a sharp jump in this nuisance flooding — often called ‘sunny-day flooding’ — along both the East Coast and the Gulf Coast in recent years.

The Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges run close to the Pacific coast, both ranges reaching altitudes higher than 14,000 feet (4,300 m).

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United States

‘Heatwaves are far more intense than when my parents were growing up in the 1950s.

Increased anthropogenic activities causing increased greenhouse gas emissions show that heat waves will be more severe.

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Heat wave

Volcanoes have had no warming effect in recent global warming - if anything, a cooling effect.

The reflection of energy into space resulted in a global cooling, triggering the Pleistocene Ice Age.

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Ice age

Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2

The heat needed to raise an average temperature increase of the entire world ocean by 0.01 °C would increase the atmospheric temperature by approximately 10 °C.

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Sea level rise

Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995

Crucifix 2016 Jull & McKenzie 1996.

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Global warming

’Extremely remarkable’ 2017 heads toward record for hottest year without an El Niño episode.

2016's record meant that 16 of the 17 warmest years have occurred since 2000, 2017 being the third-hottest year on record meant that 17 of the last 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000.

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Instrumental temperature record

“In 2013 the level of U.S. farm output was about 2.7 times its 1948 level, and productivity was growing at an average annual rate of 1.52%.

GDP per employed person increased at an average 1.5% rate during the Reagan administration, compared to an average 0.6% during the preceding eight years.

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Reaganomics

The observed behavior of radiation fluxes implies negative feedback processes associated with relatively low climate sensitivity.

Observations and modelling studies indicate that there is a net positive feedback to warming.

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Climate change feedback

Earth's changing climate is a critical issue and poses the risk of significant environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet

Isotopes of carbon and oxygen indicate a shift to a global cooling climate.

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Eocene

The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The study found that 97% of the 489 scientists surveyed agreed that global temperatures have risen over the past century.

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Attribution of recent climate change

it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.

An air pollutant is a material in the air that can have adverse effects on humans and the ecosystem.

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Air pollution

The knock-on consequences affect national security, as the scale of the challenges involved, such as pandemic disease outbreaks, are overwhelming.

A pandemic, or worldwide outbreak of a new influenza virus, could dwarf this impact by overwhelming our health and medical capabilities, potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations, and hundreds of billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs.

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Influenza A virus

The argument that solving the global warming problem by reducing human greenhouse gas emissions is "too hard" generally stems from the belief that (i) our technology is not sufficiently advanced to achieve significant emissions reductions,

Successful adaptation is easier if there are substantial emission reductions.

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Global warming

"While major green house gas H2O substantially warms the Earth, minor green house gases such as CO2 have little effect....

Increased concentrations of gases such as CO 2 (~20%), ozone and N 2O are external forcing on the other hand.

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Global warming

Coral bleaching has devastated 93% of the Great Barrier Reef

An overall analysis of coral loss found that coral populations on the Great Barrier Reef had declined by 50.7% from 1985 to 2012, but with only about 10% of that decline attributable to bleaching, and the remaining 90% caused about equally by tropical cyclones and by predation by crown-of-thorns starfishes.

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Coral bleaching

Coastal lake sediments along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline from 1,000 to 2,000 years ago suggest more frequent and intense hurricanes than occur today.

"700 yr sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England".

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Paleotempestology

Humans are small but powerful, and human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.

CO2 emissions are continuing to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land-use change.

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Global warming

Greg Hunt CSIRO research shows carbon emissions can be reduced by 20 per cent over 40 years using nature, soils and trees.

"Ireland to Plant 440 Million Trees in 20 Years to Fight Climate Change".

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Reforestation

Coral atolls grow as sea levels rise.

Gradual sea-level rise also allows for coral polyp activity to increase the reefs.

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Tuvalu

Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated.

More recent research, especially into Antarctica, indicates that this is probably a conservative estimate and true long-term sea level rise might be higher.

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Sea level rise

"However, a single scientist, Dr. Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, rewrote the draft at the IPCC’s request, deleting all five statements, replacing them with a single statement to the effect that a human influence on global climate was now discernible, and making some 200 consequential amendments.

The Chapter 8 draft report put together on 5 October had an Executive Summary of the evidence, and after various qualifications, said "Taken together, these results point towards a human influence on climate."

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IPCC Second Assessment Report

until temperature increases began to slow down after 1998 and remained relatively stable for a period of 15 years

The Little Ice Age was a period from about 1550 to 1850 when the world experienced relatively cooler temperatures compared to the time before and after.

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Retreat of glaciers since 1850

While the north-east, midwest and upper great plains have experienced a 30% increase in heavy rainfall episodes – considered once-in-every-five year downpours – parts of the west, particularly California, have been parched by drought.

Water use and conservation in California is a politically divisive issue, as the state experiences periodic droughts and has to balance the demands of its large agricultural and urban sectors, especially in the arid southern portion of the state.

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California

CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming.

"Cosmic rays blamed for global warming".

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Henrik Svensmark

The polar bear population has been growing.

The growth of the human population in the Eurasian Arctic in the 16th and 17th century, together with the advent of firearms and increasing trade, dramatically increased the harvest of polar bears.

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Polar bear

Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural.

While CO 2 absorption and release is always happening as a result of natural processes, the recent rise in CO 2 levels in the atmosphere is known to be mainly due to human (anthropogenic) activity.

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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere

Australia’s signed a suicide note [with the Paris Accord] yet didn’t seem to notice that China, India, Indonesia and the US did not commit to reducing their large carbon dioxide emissions.

"U.S. and China announce steps to join the Paris accord that set nation-by-nation targets for cutting carbon emissions".

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Paris Agreement

Climate skeptics argue temperature records have been adjusted in recent years to make the past appear cooler and the present warmer, although the Carbon Brief showed that NOAA has actually made the past warmer, evening out the difference.

It concluded, "The weight of current multi-proxy evidence, therefore, suggests greater 20th-century warmth, in comparison with temperature levels of the previous 400 years, than was shown in the TAR.

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Hockey stick controversy

The melting ice has led to global sea level rise of around eight inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880.

Since the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the sea level has risen by more than 125 metres (410 ft), with rates varying from less than a mm/year to 40+ mm/year, as a result of melting ice sheets over Canada and Eurasia.

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Sea level rise

But as that upper layer warms up, the oxygen-rich waters are less likely to mix down into cooler layers of the ocean because the warm waters are less dense and do not sink as readily.

As the season progresses, the warmer air temperatures heat the surface waters, making them less dense.

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Lake ecosystem

It is unclear whether global warming is increasing hurricane frequency but there is increasing evidence that warming increases hurricane intensity.

The warming evident in the instrumental temperature record is consistent with a wide range of observations, documented by many independent scientific groups; for example, in most continental regions the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation has increased.

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Global warming

and three Nobel economic laureates support "direct investment in technology" rather than a carbon tax.

In 2003, Samuelson was one of the ten Nobel Prize–winning economists signing the Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts.

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Paul Samuelson

Australia’s signed a suicide note [with the Paris Accord] yet didn’t seem to notice that China, India, Indonesia and the US did not commit to reducing their large carbon dioxide emissions.

This strategy involved energy and climate policy including the so-called 20/20/20 targets, namely the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20%, the increase of renewable energy's market share to 20%, and a 20% increase in energy efficiency.

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Paris Agreement

Other parts of the earth got colder when Greenland got warmer.

Polar regions receive less intense solar radiation than the other parts of Earth because the sun's energy arrives at an oblique angle, spreading over a larger area, and also travels a longer distance through the Earth's atmosphere in which it may be absorbed, scattered or reflected, which is the same thing that causes winters to be colder than the rest of the year in temperate areas.

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Polar regions of Earth

[South Australia] has the most expensive electricity in the world.

At the time of construction in late 2017, it was billed as the largest lithium-ion battery in the world.

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South Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded

The decline in the quality of water over the past 150 years (due to development) has contributed to coral bleaching, algal blooms, and pesticide pollution.

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Great Barrier Reef

I note particularly that sea-level rise is not affected by the warming; it continues at the same rate, 1.8 millimeters a year, according to a 1990 review by Andrew S. Trupin and John Wahr.

Data collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia show the current global mean sea level trend to be 3.2 mm (0.13 in) per year, a doubling of the rate during the 20th century.

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Sea level rise

Hypothetically, an increasing solar magnetic field could deflect galactic cosmic rays, which hypothetically seed low-level clouds, thus decreasing the Earth's reflectivity and causing global warming.

Henrik Svensmark has suggested that the magnetic activity of the sun deflects cosmic rays, and that this may influence the generation of cloud condensation nuclei, and thereby have an effect on the climate.

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Attribution of recent climate change

Hansen predicted in 1988 the West Side Highway would be underwater in 20 years.

The West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway) is a 5.42-mile-long (8.72 km) mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) that runs from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

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West Side Highway

Extreme weather events are being made more frequent and worse by global warming.

Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy rainfall with floods, and heavy snowfall; ocean acidification; and massive extinctions of species due to shifting temperature regimes.

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Global issue

While evidence that the earth’s orbital variations impact radiation levels and thus global temperatures does not of course mean that man is not in some way impacting the climate, studies like these highlight that the role man plays on the planet is dwarfed by natural phenomena utterly out of our control.

Since orbital variations are predictable, any model that relates orbital variations to climate can be run forward to predict future climate, with two caveats: the mechanism by which orbital forcing influences climate is not definitive; and non-orbital effects can be important (for example, Human impact on the environment principally increases in greenhouse gases result in a warmer climate).

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Milankovitch cycles

The sea was much colder than previously thought, the study suggests, indicating that climate change is advancing at an unprecedented rate”

The authors conclude that "anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases have led to unprecedented regional warmth."

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Climate change in the Arctic

In the 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age, sea level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone."

This low precipitation allows high-latitude snowfalls to melt during the summer.

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Ice age

In other words, we have, trapped in Arctic permafrost, twice as much carbon as is currently wrecking the atmosphere of the planet, all of it scheduled to be released at a date that keeps getting moved up, partially in the form of a gas that multiplies its warming power 86 times over.

Melting of this ice may release large quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, causing further warming in a strong positive feedback cycle.

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Arctic methane emissions

Prof Adam Scaife, a climate modelling expert at the UK’s Met Office, said the evidence for a link to shrinking Arctic ice was now good: ‘The consensus points towards that being a real effect.’”

Network of African Science Academies: "A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change."

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Scientific consensus on climate change

Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever.

According to the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by IPBES, the biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have lost about half their area and a million species are at risk of extinction—all largely as a result of human actions.

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Extinction

When South Australians buy electricity at $14,200/MWh, they are paying the equivalent of $400 a litre for petrol.

As of 2018, the unsubsidised levelised cost of electricity for utility scale solar power is around $43/MWh.

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Solar power

as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity.

In terms of climate, the tropics receive sunlight that is more direct than the rest of Earth and are generally hotter and wetter.

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Tropics

So CO2 causes warming AND rising temperature causes CO2 rise.

Not only do increasing carbon dioxide concentrations lead to increases in global surface temperature, but increasing global temperatures also cause increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide.

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Carbon dioxide

The human contribution to global warming was about 0.01°C.

Temperatures rose by 0.0 °C–0.2 °C from 1720–1800 to 1850–1900 (Hawkins et al., 2017).

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Global warming

This means the global temperature trend has now shown no further warming for 19 years

Global warming in this case was indicated by an increase of 0.75 degrees in average global temperatures over the last 100 years.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

But like most claims regarding global warming, the real effect is small, probably temporary, and most likely due to natural weather patterns

Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions and persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use."

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Global warming

And some plants – like algae which use carbon for photosynthesis – may even benefit.

Cyanobacteria use the energy of sunlight to drive photosynthesis, a process where the energy of light is used to synthesize organic compounds from carbon dioxide.

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Cyanobacteria

there is no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide emissions by ­humans[...]

Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century...

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Scientific consensus on climate change

Overall Greenland is losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.

"A tipping point in refreezing accelerates mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps".

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Sea level rise

The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."

His negotiations with congressional Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation including the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, which resolved a taxation deadlock; the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved that year's debt ceiling crisis; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending fiscal cliff.

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Joe Biden

many scientists were surprised when other researchers subsequently found that ringed and bearded seals (the primary prey of polar bears) north of the Bering Strait especially thrived with a longer open-water season, which is particularly conducive to fishing

Natural predators of the bearded seal include polar bears, who rely on these seals as a major food source.

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Bearded seal

The warm and cool regions roughly balance each other out with little impact on global temperature.

This in turn would raise planetary albedo and act to cool the global temperature to Earth-like levels, despite the greater proximity to the Sun.

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Terraforming of Venus

The Review concluded that CRU's actions were normal and did not threaten the integrity of peer review.

The report, issued on 18 February 2011, cleared the researchers and "did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data or failed to adhere to appropriate peer review procedures".

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

In the past, warming has never been a threat to life on Earth.

Given the potential threat to marine ecosystems and its ensuing impact on human society and economy, especially as it acts in conjunction with anthropogenic global warming, there is an urgent need for immediate action."

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Scientific consensus on climate change

More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."

Homeland security is an American national security umbrella term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive to the national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and minimize the damage from attacks that do occur".

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Homeland security

Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."

Expressing puzzlement over questions about whether he is "black enough," Obama told an August 2007 meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists that "we're still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong."

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Barack Obama

Climate policy must compete with other long-term threats for always-scarce resources.”

Depletion of natural resources including fresh water increases the likelihood of "resource wars".

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Sustainability

If warming temperatures brought on by greenhouse gas emissions make wet years less wet and dry years even drier, as scientists anticipate, year-to-year recovery will become more difficult.

In other words, regions which are dry at present will in general become even drier, while regions that are currently wet will in general become even wetter.

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Effects of global warming

"The solar system oscillates with a 60-year cycle due to the Jupiter/Saturn three-synodic cycle and to a Jupiter/Saturn beat tidal cycle...

"Modeling the 5 : 2 Mean-Motion Resonance in the Jupiter-Saturn Planetary System".

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Saturn

Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely.

"Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China".

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China

Growers regularly pump CO2 into greenhouses, raising levels to three times that of the natural environment, to produce stronger, greener, healthier plants.”

To increase yield further, some sealed greenhouses inject CO2 into their environment to help improve growth and plant fertility.

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Hydroponics

I would not agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.

In March 2017, Pruitt said that he does not believe that human activities, specifically carbon dioxide emissions, are a primary contributor to climate change, a view which is in contradiction with the scientific consensus.

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Scott Pruitt

NASA Finds Antarctica is Gaining Ice,

According to NASA, the most widespread Antarctic surface melting of the past 30 years occurred in 2005, when an area of ice comparable in size to California briefly melted and refroze; this may have resulted from temperatures rising to as high as 5 °C (41 °F).

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Antarctica

When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical

Many such people prefer to call themselves skeptics and describe their position as climate change skepticism.

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Climate change denial

Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.

Alterations to the ocean currents, due to increased freshwater inputs from glacier melt, and the potential alterations to thermohaline circulation of the worlds oceans, may affect existing fisheries upon which humans depend as well.

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Climate change and ecosystems

Last year’s warmth was manifested across the planet, from the warm tropical ocean waters off the coast of northeastern Australia, where the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst coral bleaching event on record and large scale coral death, to the Arctic, where sea ice hit regular monthly record lows and overall temperatures were also the warmest on record, at least from January through September 2016.

A global mass coral bleaching has been occurring since 2014 because of the highest recorded temperatures plaguing oceans.

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Coral bleaching

A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

The energy harvested from the turbine will offset the installation cost, as well as provide virtually free energy for years.

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Wind turbine