Lots of inventions were unasked-for until they were invented.

No we have not. That's another cherry picked date comparison. Corals have been bleaching and repopulating themselves for several hundred million years.

That's not how it was reported at the time, and I have no reason to trust People magazine.

If you were an anti-alarmist, you'd be crowing this shows sea levels dropping.

For another indication of how sloppy sea level rise claims are, the alarmists published a list of sea level changes along the US Atlantic coast, and funny thing, they differed considerably, as if the ocean were rising more in some places than others. The alternative explanation of sinking land levels was pooh poohed as climate denialism. But another funny thing: California's central valley was once reported as having sunk 22 feet since the gold rush days 150 years earlier, due to pumping out so much underground water. Gosh, could the same thing be happening along the Atlantic coast?

They made those loans because the government promised to bail them out if the loans soured, and the government said there would be consequences for not making enough subprime loans.

Oh yes it did, starting back in the Clinton era. I forget what they called it, other than subprime lending. Banks were specifically told the government (taxpayers) would back their risky loans, and if they did not cooperate, there would be consequences.

The claims were "extinction" and "disappearance" by now, not "lower from some cherry picked date". People don't resort to shenanigans like that when they have truth on their side. You, sir, act as if you do not have truth on your side.

There was a world record high temperature reported in Algeria a few years back. Turns out the weather station was situated at an airport, on or close to the tarmac where jet airplanes shot their hot exhaust at the area.

There are standards for weather stations, such as fresh white paint, size and shape of the containing box, louvers, situated with grass around it, no artificial heat sources nearby, etc etc etc. Something like 90-95% of Britain's weather stations violate those standards, some so badly that they are rated as only being within 5 degrees of correct. Britain was also reporting record high temperatures for weather stations that haven't existed for decades; they average other weather stations within 50 miles to create fake weather station data.

These same patterns show up in the US and other countries. The reported "record high temperatures" are nothing of the sort.

Again: people don't lie like this when they have truth on their side. They not only don't need to, they know that lies ruin their reputations. These alarmists don't seem to mind being caught in such egregious lies. Apparently they don't mind having shit reputations.

Your statistics are meaningless without providing dates. Anyone can cherry pick any starting date they want to show any trend they want. Al Gore and other alarmists specifically claimed "extinct" and "disappear", not "trending". Your strawman is another sign of a liar who doesn't believe his own propaganda.

Your stats on coastal flooding are not backed up by reality. An awful lot of people are moving to Florida. Obama still has that sea level mansion.

Perhaps you don't understand that "move heaven and earth" means not accepting the status quo on taking 30 years to build nuclear power, when it didn't used to take so long. Perhaps you don't understand the alarmists' claim of a tipping point and existential risk

I was thinking the same thing. Of course the government has their own way around the rules. However, what if you turn off your device before arriving? It's current state is off and encrypted and will remain encrypted until you unlock it. if you don't unlock the device then the "current state" of the device is not as useful.

Just a thought.

Dittto what thegarbz said below me. To that I'd add the heat waves in Europe, the fish swimming north in the Atlantic to escape the warm water, The shortened winter in the U.S., the hotter summers and generally warmer Earth all around.

Another thing you ignore is that climate normally changes slowly due to natural processes. However, the Earth is a system, it has feedback loops and feedforward loops. One of the things we have yet to contend with, but it is coming, is the Arctic permafrost is melting due to our increasing the heat in the atmosphere. This will increase CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, thus causing further and faster melting. So if we wind up creating a rather non-virtuous cycle, there'll be nothing we can do to stop frying ourselves off the planet. One of the reasons for the feedfordward here is that when you melt snow and ice, it doesn't reflect light as well as it did. If you melt down to ground, then that ground absorbs the light and heats up. The CO2 and methane now have heat source to enjoy.

I'd list all the bad consequences of this, but life is short. I'll just mention one: mosquitos. They really, really like warmth. And they carry a host of nasty diseases. Got all yer shots? At least vaccines we have? The antivaxers are a poster child for your line of thinking. We don't need no stinking shots, we don't recall measles being a thing. It is now, thanks to the antivaxers. Explain that to the parents who believed in that bullshit immediately after the funeral for their kid who died of measles, or worse, to the parents of kids who cannot get vaxed.

Kindles and the Kindle app also allow changing font size, a real benefit as my eyes age. I bought a 1200 page book recently. The main font was just readable with a bright light. The 200 pages of footnotes were illegible. I bought the eBook version and breezed through it. Kindles might be able to change fonts, I don't know and never had reason to try before. I do miss flipping pages for something I read 10 pages back, but search more than makes up for that.

My Oasis batteries (Kindle and cover) gave up the ghost a year ago, and I can't stand the replacement without buttons. I switched to a TCL 11 NXTPAPER tablet and use the Kindle app. The screen has zero glare, zero reflections. It's not readable in bright sunlight, and the table is slow, but the price ($300) is about the same as a good Kindle but I can scroll books instead of flipping pages, and it runs regular Android apps. I gave my two Kindles (Scribe, Paperwhite?) away a week ago; hadn't used them in a couple of years. I probably would have kept using them if they'd had physical page turn buttons.

Gotta admit, it was pretty funny when Obama bought a multi-million dollar mansion on the coast just three feet above seal level.

If climate catastrophe is not a hoax, why have all their predictions failed? Polar bears and penguins haven't died out. Arctic summer sea ice is just as plentiful as always. There's still snow in the Alps and Mt Kilimanjaro. New York City and Florida are not drowning.

Why do the catastrophists like Al Gore continue lying and not admit their predictions were poppycock?

If the Greens actually believed we were going to reach a tipping point into a Venus-style future in the next 10 years from fossil fuels, they'd be moving heaven and earth to get nuclear power going. The minuscule danger from nuclear power pales in comparison to human extinction.

The only reasonable conclusion is that they don't believe their own propaganda. They don't eat their own dog food.

Corals have survived for several hundred million years. They survived the comet that killed the dinosaurs. They survived the 400-500 foot sea level rise from 10-15,000 years ago. 12 inches for this short a time won't affect them in the least.