We are are nearing the end of an interglacial period and due for temperatures to be falling.
Don't we still have a 2000 year window to stay within previous cold periods? It's not like they end on the same day and have exactly the same duration.
The denialist idea that scientists simply had it wrong when expecting temperatures to fall is among the lamest excuses given.
No one who has any education at all denies that the climate of earth over the millennia has varied from extremely cold to extremely warm. We developed in one of its warmer periods and lived through a moderate cold period. And then ~ 700 years ago we had a small ice age that lasted about 400 years that along with the plague killed off a lot of people. But in the course of 4.5 million years, humans represent a tiny blip of time and we have been using fossil fuels in quantities that "scientists" deem excessive for around 200 years. Carbon dioxide is plant food. A little more in the atmosphere makes plants happy. A little more warming expands the growing area for food crops.
There are no explanations for the current rapid temperature rise other than the increase in greenhouse gasses.
What caused greenhouse gasses to increase during other climate change periods? We weren't there so it wasn't us.
The planet's average temperature is warming. That is about average global climate, not weather. You clearly are incapable of comprehending the difference.
So why do the climate alarmists always blame bad weather on climate change. I know they are different. I was just using one of your own analogies. Every time we have a high temperature period they cry the sky is falling. Every time we have a bad hurricane, they cry the sky is falling. Neither has anything to do with climate change and reducing CO2 emissions isn't going to stop weather from being variable and occasionally extreme.
Claiming that humans are the proximate cause of climate change is hubris. Yes, the climate is changing? Can we do anything about it? Not enough to matter if cutting CO2 is your only solution. How about controlling population and even aiming to reduce it? That would make a huge difference but still never come even close to stopping the climate from changing. How about getting China and India to stop building coal fired electric plants? I think China is still on track to build a new one very week. Why do you give them a pass? They are contributing far more CO2 to the atmosphere than we are.
Insisting that reducing CO2 is the ONLY solution is downright idiotic.
So, those are the 2 bones of contention, no one thinks the climate doesn't change so you really need to find a better pejorative than "climate deniers". We disagree that humans are the proximate cause and that CO2 reduction is the only solution. If we could ever get past that hurdle, we could actually collaborate productively on protecting humans from climate change which is inevitable.
Yes, we need to do better to clean up our environment and reduce our waste products. Plastic is very destructive as a waste product and we use way too much of it. One way to do that is to use MORE Nuclear power rather than less. NOTHING would go further toward reducing CO2 emissions than to bring on more Nuclear plants. But another group of crazies is blocking that. Why not pick on those people?
Another big saver is to convert large fleets of local trucks like the PO and the garbage trucks and plows and local delivery services to natural gas. Infrastructure doesn't have to be built because these vehicles all go home at night and so they can refuel then. Much natural gas is just burned off because so much is produced by oil wells and there isn't enough market for it. Then we don't have to be dependent on China for most of the rare earth minerals we need for batteries which themselves are impossible to recycle and so very bad for the planet.