In 1997 I discovered the The Week That Was (TWTW) column at www.SEPP.org -- a source of links to good climate articles, and I still scan TWTW every week.
http://sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm
2017 is my twentieth year of reading climate change articles and papers, and my fortieth year of writing as a hobby -- I started with a financial newsletter in 1977, while in graduate school earning my MBA, and still write it every other month.
The following article is aimed at a modest intelligence level -- let's say a recent elementary school graduate, or an adult Democrat -- both brainwashed about CO2 by their teachers !
If my wife was my editor, she'd delete the prior sentence.
Fortunately, she's not my editor!
I ridicule Democrats about climate change simply because their 'runaway global warming is going to destroy all life on Earth' theory is so ridiculous!
Ridiculous predictions deserves ridicule!
Following may be my shortest global warming article ever, if you exclude the long-winded introduction.
And even better, it has no numbers:
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When it comes predicting the future climate, no one knows what they are talking about.
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Earth’s climate slightly warmed in the last century, but no one knows exactly why.
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Current understanding of climate change is not good enough to explain the cause of that warming.
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No one knows if adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the air will change the climate.
BELIEVING CO2 will change the climate is not KNOWING it will.
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Some people say even if we don’t know that CO2 will dangerously warm the climate in the future, we should reduce CO2 emissions anyway ... just in case.
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But because our knowledge of the future climate is zero, we have no idea whether reducing CO2 emissions will make the climate better, or worse.
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For example, adding CO2 to the air is making green plants grow faster and 'greening' the Earth -- that's good news from adding CO2 to the air.
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There may be a reason to reduce the use of fossil fuels that add CO2 to the air, especially coal, but climate warming is not that reason.
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Be aware that predictions of the future climate, or future anything else, are almost always wrong.
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Be aware that some politicians will predict a disaster in the future to get attention, and then claim only they can prevent it -- don't vote for them!