On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 23:36:57 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>In article >, tert in seattle
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how a person can argue with "the 10 warmest years on record
>> have all occurred since 1998" - it's just data, and it needs to be taken
>> seriously, not confused with this sunspots crap or whatever
>
>Oh, that's easy! I lost my job in the late seventies to global cooling.
>That made me a sceptic. The grand data points on whatever graph you're
>selling have been collected by "climatologists" since then, when they
>learned that being a compliant "climatologist" means big bucks from
>taxpayer funding [government grants] if they can sell a program that
>benefits the various governments. Keep the populace afraid, and control
>them with blather and points on a questionable graph.
>Climate change is ongoing since our planet first formed.

But it's going very fast and it's very damaging. And if we're causing
it -which scientists say is the case- then we can also stop it.

Unfortunately, that's going to cost some money and the biggest
polluters -the US and China- hate spending money.