We have a saying. "There's a few kangaroos short in the top paddock".
Look at these sea water temperatures, year by year:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...5c-above-pre-industrial-levels/102836304It is the third chart here that I watch, and find very depressing:
https://climate.copernicus.eu/recor...ures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves This chart measure sea water temps on a year by year basis.
But these are short duration charts. When we strip out politics from your post (which you raise as the reason why scientists are lying across the world, as a global conspiracy to set up a parallel to Stalin's man-made famine in Ukraine!), you seem to have the idea that we should take a longue duree approach to assessing climate change. That of itself is a valid response, because humans tend to operate on primacy and recency in memory and in drawing conclusions.
Let's look at long duration measurements. The sources for these are as I understand it analysis of ice core samples.
A little bit down this page is a chart showing levels of CO2 for the last 10000 years:
https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?p=4&t=101&&a=55Now, CO2 levels have been higher in the past than what they are now. During these periods of time, the planet was not capable of sustaining complex life. Here's another graph:
https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/ We have also had temperature fluctuations over the past 400000. We have happy days during interglacial periods. On track records, our current interglacial period is wrapping up about 4000 years too early:
https://co2coalition.org/facts/interglacials-usually-last-10000-15000-years-ours-is-11000-years-old/ You might dismiss my data as biased, because of that global conspiracy theory and you like to play the ad hominem logical fallacy.
But the thing I find most disconcerting about you, as an individual, and your far right climate change politicisation and dismissal is that, setting aside what should be no argument about cause, the effect is in front of you. You're a resident of Florida! If you're in southern Florida, you may as well be a resident of the Maldives but with worse weather.
I don't know how old you are. Assuming you're younger than me, do you really think you'll be living there in 20 years? Your property will be worthless in the meantime because you won't have a market for it, and uninsurable because insurers won't back it.
I'd take no pleasure in saying, "I told you so."
Bolsheviks aren't causing repeated catastrophes in Florida. It is as if you're expecting your political belief system and confirmation bias will hold back hurricanes and prevent the destruction of your residential asset base. Your politics isn't going to create a big green glowing sea wall as if you're Breitbart Lantern.
Doesn't that give you a fissure of nervousness?
(Also, as an aside, if you think there is a global urbanisation conspiracy, do you have your own self-sustaining farm? That doesn't sound very Florida but I don't know as I've never been.)
