I was born in 1953 -- I know -- that's really old.
During my first 22 years of life, carbon dioxide was being added to the air.
-- I didn't notice.
The global temperature was cooling slightly.
-- Didn't notice that either.
From age 22 (1975) to age 47 (2000), more carbon dioxide was being added to the air.
-- I didn't notice.
The global temperature was warming that time.
-- Didn't notice that either.
I first read about global warming when I started using the internet at work in 1996, at age 43.
In 1997, I started reading about global warming every week, guided by The Week That Was -- a reading list at www.SEPP.org
In 1998 the global temperature spiked from an El Nino weather event.
Weather satellite temperature data say that 1998 peak had not been exceeded as of 2015.
That's why the "warmunists' pretend weather satellites don't exist !
More CO2 was added to the air after 2000.
-- Of course I didn't notice.
This time the global temperature was steady, although the US actually got cooler from 2005 to 2015.
-- I didn't notice either trend.
The global temperature remained steady when measured by BOTH the weather satellites, and the less accurate (non-global) surface thermometers.
In 2015 an arbitrary, unjustified "adjustment" was made to surface ocean temperatures to "magically" change the 15-year flat trend to a slightly rising trend.
The "warmunists" do not tolerate temperature measurements that contradict their theory (rising CO2 must cause a rising global temperature).
Government officials own the climate predictions … and unfortunately they also own the actual temperature data.
Believe it or not, the government officials frequently "adjust" the actual temperature data to better match their predictions, and create more global warming "out of thin air" … and of course they completely ignore contradictory weather satellite data !
Scary global warming predictions were why I wrote a feature article about climate change in a 2007 issue of my ECONOMIC LOGIC newsletter (published since 1981):
-- The attack on fossil fuels was an attack on economic growth, and
-- I'd been listening to scary predictions about DDT, acid rain, a hole in the ozone layer, global cooling, etc. since the 1960s -- all the prior scary predictions had been wrong.
My second feature article was seven years later, in 2014, because the scary predictions were getting louder, in spite of the fact that the global temperature had been in a flat trend for about 14 years.
This blog was launched in late 2014 after that article was published, with the goal of keeping ECONOMIC LOGIC subscribers up to date on climate change.
During 2015 I decided to make this website address available to others for free, as a public service.
Unlike most people, I'm online only two or three days a week.
On those days I'll read a few articles online at climate "skeptic" and other websites, make a few comments, and download a few other articles and papers to read later.
Even though I often add comments to an online climate article I've read, no comments are allowed here -- I don't have time to be a Moderator.
I try to mention this blog address at the end of a comment once during every day I'm online.
I suppose if my comment made sense, someone who read it online might check out this blog.
One problem I noticed with many articles at "skeptic" websites:
They are too "scientific" / complicated for good communication to the general public.
The slight change in the global average temperature from when I was born in 1953, through 2015 when I reached age 62, was too small for me to notice.
The only reason I know about the global average temperature is because many government employees have spent a lot of taxpayer money to calculate that statistic.
The next article discusses whether the global average temperature is a useful statistic.