The temperature of the planet has been flat since 1997. No global warming in the past 18 years.
The issue may be there was a cooling trend from 1940-1975 so this normalization may look like warming to some who look at the data.
Recall it was not long ago that those who cried the sky is falling were talking about global COOLING and we were headed to the ice age.
There are two ways to reconcile this approach:
One is to say the climatologists in favor of man induced global catastrophe don't know what they are talking about OR...
We averted an ice age with our cool V8 cars and SUVs and Lycomings (and Continentals and Franklins).
In that case thank goodness for global warming.
There is data artic ice is up by 50% since 2012. Since I have no pet polar bears I can't say this matters much to me, but it would argue against the ice caps melting, as Al Gore predicted would have happened by now. So the 'credibility' of the patron saint of GW is gone.
Almost all of the models showing huge temperature gains have turned out to be wrong.
The GW discussion is as much (more?) political as scientific.
If we want to worry about the sky falling, energy in this discussion is misplaced.
What about a nuclear North Korea?
Our president allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons?
A nuclear Pakistan pointed at a nuclear India?
Open borders to our country allowing terrorists free access?
Our liberties eroding on a near daily basis?
Continued threats against Israel by its 'peaceful Islamic' neighbors?
The former USSR and Ukraine?
African genocide?
Christians being beheaded by peaceful Moslems?
I'm sure we can all add to this list of global threats that there is no arguing about.
Not that we can do much if anything about these either, which brings up my final point.
I'm off this planet in 30 years. Good luck to future generations.