But they're crusading against VW...what a hypocrite organisation.

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Yes but he argued we don't know the extent of it and that still remains true ... 

You very much did so ... 

Our reliable records we have pale in comparison to the context of Earth's geological timescale. A century's worth of data or even under that can't possibly hope to explain or predict long term trends for over as much as billions or as little as millions of years ... 

Are the two statements incompatible?

Of course not but if all we have is a century's worth of data, what's wrong with using that to predict the trend in the coming century?

I’ve only lived on this planet for 40 years and I can tell you one thing....this climate is going to shit. We had the weirdest weather I can ever remember this year and everything seems to get more out of balance every year. I’m glad I’m living in a country with big solid stone houses but I swear to god I’m well aware 90% of this planet’s population doesn’t have this luxury. Not even most Americans. People need to stop being so ignorant.

You said it yourself, retraining. It won't be easy but if you want to survive, you gotta pick up a new craft.  The goverment and the green energy companies have to help these people, we can just toss them to the side but it takes just one generation to break families or towns who have been in this line of work for decades. I'm not versed or read in this issue but just as we have to adapt to the worsening conditions of our planet, so do they and we should all help if needed.

That depends on the implication ... 

Our weather forecasts aren't even accurate when going beyond a month when we've had decades of past data to boot so how can one century's worth of data ever be enough to tell if there's a trend when Earth's climate is highly variable and erratic ? (you'd at least need 1000 years worth of data to even get a hint and geologists learned that the hard way when they discovered ice ages still persisted with CO2 concentrations that were 10x higher than it is today) 

Even if anthropogenic global warming is happening there's a limit to our fossil fuel reserves while our biosphere grows bigger and starts reabsorbing all those emissions again and starts forming sediments ... 

Sure, but if only increased it by .000001% per year, why would we care? Magnitude matters just as much as whether or not its happening, especially when we are making cost-benefit-risk assessments. 

This is still a global claim though, because storms are not going to be more extreme everywhere in the world. So using global trends to explain any particular intense storm without empirical evidence of causation does harm, because when one sees a region with calmer weather they are going to say, "What are you talking about? The weather is calmer here." Since you can't verify causation, you can't make the claim you made. 

Forty years is not long enough for an individual person to accertain global trends in climate based on their experience. Sorry, this is just as bad as the people who say, "Global warming doesn't exist because my region is getting colder over forty years." Sure, your local region might've got colder, but the GLOBE got warmer. It is important to depend on facts when we talk about climate change, not personal experience. 

LAWL, you just made a strawman and missed my point ... 

How is that even possible ? 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161222095844.htm

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/08/plants-have-unexpected-response-climate-change

Fact is there's more biodiversity in warmer climates and plant life seems to prefer both the higher temperatures and higher concentration levels of CO2 ... 

@Bold That is something a climate alarmist would say. There's almost no chance of Earth running into a runaway greenhouse gas effect and even the IPCC admits to this ... (not to mention as organic life continues to absorb the CO2 in the atmosphere and as organic material continues to accumulate on top of each other in anaerobic environments, sediments will start to form and the CO2 gets trapped in these calcite rich limestones) 

Your entire post is the prime example of fearmongering ...