The Climate Is'a Changing: And Has Been for Several Billion Years

SEE HERE It's kind of ironic because when I went to this site to read their piece it was a lot history about global warming hysteria but it also had a link to National Geographic (which I thought a little odd since National Geographic has been a major alarmist outlet), so I followed that link and sure enough it was extolling the standard global alarmist nutnik stuff. So what's a person to believe?

I've tried to figure it all out and I've read a lot of books and looked at a lot of websites and a lot of data. I've concluded the following: 1) the earth goes through periodic climate change on a variety of time scales and these include appreciable warming and appreciable cooling, 2) CO2 is a greenhouse gas that partly accounts for the fact that the earth has a reasonable living temperature for life and it is one of the single most important nutrients for plant life on the planet, 3) We've been coming out of a cooling phase for over a hundred years so there has been relatively mild global warming over something like 150 to 200 years, 4) we've entered a cooling phase nominally in 1995 and the earth has been cooling slightly since then, 5) no one really knows how to predict these phases reliably, 6) there is no very good evidence that CO2 is a major climate driver and there is appreciable evidence that warming drives CO2 and not the other way around, 7) ice sheets and glaciers melt and are reconstituted and on balance its probably better that they melt than that they increase in extent, 8) a steady state earth is a pipedream, 9) man's ability to affect global climate change is very limited since natural factors are much much larger than anything man does.

PUNCH LINE: Find some other calamity to compulse over. This one isn't panning out.