The mainstream journalists have been reporting over the last 20 years that global warming was dangerously accelerating due to greenhouse gas emissions, primarily CO2.
They reported that this rapid temperature elevation would bring untold climate change disaster and calamity to humanity - per the climate model based speculations - if we did not cease using the fossil fuels that produced the CO2.
Yet, despite growing emissions that now surpass 400 ppm in the atmosphere, at the end of 2018, according to HadCrut annual global temperature dataset, the globe warmed by a measly +0.056°C since 1998 - not even a tenth of a degree over 20 years.
A nothing-burger.
(Note: see the +0.056°C increase on adjacent thermometer where the small white dots represent the 1998 temperature.)
If that 20-year amount of "warming" is repeated every 20 years, then by the end of 100 years, global warming would have increased a barely measurable +0.3°C degree. This is not your AOC's warming that will end the world in a short 12 years.
In addition, the last 20 years of actual warming does not match well with the predicted warming from the most sophisticated climate models' compilation. For the 20 years ending 2018, the models' approximate mean estimate of global warming is +0.50°C .
Thus, the expert predicted warming is roughly 8 times greater than actual.
All of the above tells one that actual warming has not been either extreme or dangerous.
This has been literally worry-free warming over the last 2 decades notwithstanding the climate model scenarios of excessive near-death-warming that must be upon us.
Besides the recent actual tiny warming, there also have been multiple peer-reviewed studies published over the last 12 months that establish catastrophic global warming to be more science fiction than scientific reality. For example:
“Global Warming” Leaves Ireland In The Cold …Emerald Island Has Been Cooling Over Past 3 Decades!
New Study: North America Has Been Cooling Since 1998 – With No Significant Overall Warming Since 1982
New Papers Find Significant COOLING In W. Virginia, Appalachia, And The Yellow Sea Since The Early 1900s
World Cooling
The Disappearance of March Heatwaves
Fading Warming…More Cooling: Winters At Austria’s Ischgler Idalpe Have Become 1.3°C COLDER Over Past 30 Years!
90% Of Japan’s Rural Stations Show Cooling Or No Trend Over Past 2 Decades!
False Alarm: New Study Finds Global Ocean Warmed By 0.02°C From 1994-2013, With Cooling Below 3600m
New Study Reveals The Arctic Region Was 4.6°C Warmer Than ‘Present Day’ During The 1930s
North Atlantic Ocean Rapidly Cooling…Cool Down And Growing Arctic Sea Ice May Follow
12 New Papers Affirm A 21st Century Cessation Of Arctic Warming And A Rapid Cooling Across Antarctica
And then there are the other actual climate change empirical indicators...or aka - multiple climate change nothingburgers
No Trend In Extreme Weather In The US
New Study: Number & Intensity of US Hurricanes Have Remained Constant Since 1900
2018 is the first year with no violent tornadoes in USA – 5 years without an EF-5 tornado & number of EF-3 tornadoes will be a record low as well
Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends (1967-2018): A comparison between climate models and observations
Record Snowfall Across Himalayas
‘Colorado snowpack so juiced in 2019 that they had to redo the scale’
Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, NASA study shows
‘California is drought-free for the first time in nearly a decade’ – ‘It’s official: California is 100% drought-free’
US Drought Near Historic Lows
30 years of NOAA tide gauge data debunk 1988 Senate hearing climate alarmist claims
Sea-level rise within natural variation of past several thousand years
Data Show Polar Sea Ice Stable 12 Years
Polar Bear Population May Have Quadrupled Since 1960s
Record corn yield and soybean production predicted for 2018
SUMMARY: There exists no empirical evidence, nor research studies based on actual empirical evidence, indicating that humanity is being threatened by disastrous warming or associated climate change manifestations. On the contrary, real world indications are that natural climate changes do occur but they do not amount to the claimed existential menace, even with the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases. These facts confirm that proposed billions to trillions of American's dollars should not be spent on unproven and highly controversial attempts to fix what amounts to non-threatening global "warming" and mild climate "change."