I think they really blew it by calling it "global warming". It's not that simple, and is a misnomer. "Climate change" is more correct. Stuff IS changing, any scientific data will back that up. Core samples, all sorts of irrefutable evidence.
In New England, it was shirtsleeve weather at Christmas and well into January, but now it's April and snowing. It seemed like winter got bumped a few months. That's "change", not necessarily "warming".
So many things affect the weather. If warmer water shut down the North Atlantic Conveyor, which is possible, Europe would get much colder without the warm water brought up from the equatorial region.
Is a cycle? We don't know. Is it our fault? We don't know. Are things changing in a manner we really haven't seen before? Yes. Can it affect our coastal cities, our civilizations and way of life? Yes. We're tiny, the planet is big.
That's what I think the focus should be on, and the US is sadly lacking there. Tokyo has cathedral-sized underground viaducts with 737-engine powered pumps that can swallow an entire tsunami and keep it from hitting the city. London has the huge Thames Flood Barrier gates with their silver shields. Holland has massive computer-controlled lift gates.
The US has...some dirt mounds.
That's kinda sad. That should be our focus now, I think.
