The hole is about the right size for one of Dune's sandworms.

The amount of actual heat produced by burning stuff is miniscule compared to the energy added by greenhouse warming, about 0.028 W/m^2 vs. 2.9 W/m^2. It's not worth worrying about at this point.

Bingo! My reaction to the choices as well.

I refer you to the IPCC AR5 Working Group 1 report to support my argument. If you want to debate the science of climate (rather than the political questions that arise from its implications) you need to do it in a scientific manner with an awareness of the science that's already been done. Bringing up the same old arguments that have been repeatedly refuted doesn't cut it.

Dr. Roy Spencer on the divergence between UAH and RSS global temperature records.

Of course 10 or even 20 years is too short a period to form any meaningful conclusions on surface temperature trends. Natural variability is large enough to overcome the underlying warming trend in that short a period. There's a reason that the classical climatological period is defined as 30 years. Meanwhile the oceans continue to heat up without pause.

We'll see what future temperature trends bring but I doubt that an extremely low solar cycle will be enough to stop rising temperatures.

Global Historical Climate Network raw vs. adjusted temperatures.

You need to show that "some of the same people who are spouting similar lines" are buying the property.

The composition of the atmosphere, specifically the greenhouse gases in it make the Earth on average about 33 degrees C warmer than it would otherwise be.

I stopped reading when I got to that line. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. The largest volcanic eruption of the past 100 years, Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 released about 42 million tonnes of CO2. That's less than 0.2% compared to the 23 billion tonnes released by humans that year,

You set an impossibly high standard. Climate models will never be able to predict weather within .01%. It's not physically possible. Besides they predict climate which is the average weather, not weather itself. But what if they're say 75% accurate? Is that enough to pay some heed to them.

Also keep in mind that Pennsylvania (or even Pennsylvania and Connecticut taken together) are not representative of the whole globe.

You need to get your terminology straight. The article you cite talks about Antarctic sea ice, not the Antarctic ice sheet which is solidly grounded on the continent and continues to lose mass. Antarctic sea ice is about the only ice in the world that is not dropping and the net lose of ice from all sources is pretty massive.

Wish I could mod you up.

You may have had the snowiest winter on record but I doubt it was the coldest. Maybe the coldest in your lifetime though.

FTFY