>>890230Whether I'm 18 years old or not is completely immaterial. If you were right, I could be 5 years old or 95 years old, you'd be able to rebut me.
Personally, I remember that back in the 90s we used to have a layer of snow on Christmas, every year. Now we're lucky to have cold rain. Now by itself, this doesn't matter at all-- if it was a statistical artifact of my regional weather, it wouldn't matter for the science. Be wary of the fallacy of anecdotal evidence and personal experience.
>The earth hasn't warmed in 18 yearsYou are completely wrong.
Now, normally you can apply a drown out a climate signal by cherrypicking start and end dates, and enclosing a period that is absurdly long (e.g. "The Earth was warmer during the Jurassic Period!") or meaninglessly short. You tried to do the latter, but here it doesn't even work. 2015 is the hottest full year ever recorded on the instrumental record, and 2016 is very likely to exceed that. If you wanted to trick us, you should have said "There was no statistically significant warming from 1999-2014." then you might be able to fudge the numbers enough to make the "pause" argument work.
Sources:
NASA 2016 - "2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records"
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-continue-to-break-recordsRajaratnam et al. 2015 - "Debunking the climate change hiatus"
Lewandowsky, Risbey & Oreskes 2015 - "On the definition and identifiability of the alleged “hiatus” in global warming"
Lewandowsky, Risbey & Oreskes 2016 - "The “Pause” in Global Warming: Turning a Routine Fluctuation into a Problem for Science"
Santer et al. 2011 - "Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale"
>There are lots of real environmental problemsI completely agree with you. Fortunately we're able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
