[Interesting Times]

What will it take for people to care about climate change? For some, the thought of a crummier cup of coffee in the morning just might do it.

The Washington Post ("Helping Democracy Die in Darkness") informed us the other day that rats and other vermin are flooding into peoples' bedrooms because of the fraction of a degree of recent global warming.

There might be a credibility issue here.

[BlueLancer]

"The Washington Post ("Helping Democracy Die in Darkness") informed us the other day that rats and other vermin are flooding into peoples' bedrooms ...."

Ah was nowhere near the place ...

[Chad N. Freud]

"There might be a credibility issue here."

It now occurs to me:

All these warmist gloom-and-doom predictions involve changes 'in the future':

Coffee will get worse; birds' eggs will get smaller; winters will get shorter/longer; and so on, and so on ....

Yet, the premise is that 'man-made global warming' has been going on for so long now -- since industrialization began -- that they can measure it in the temperature record. They can: with a mathematical precision.

Therefore, shouldn't its effects have already kicked in?

Shouldn't coffee already have become scarce? And birds' eggs have become smaller?

Why is it always cast in the future tense?

Please show 1880 shorelines worldwide that were lower than they are now, and then we can talk about how carbon burning leads to sea level rise. Claiming, predicting, and modelling that it will happen in the future is not an answer.

Why didn't it happen in the last 130 years, if it's going to happen in the next 130 years under the same circumstances?