And, to a real scientist, data points like "the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972" have absolutely no predictive meaning whatsoever.
My body temperature diminishes by about 1.3% every damn night. And that means I'm asleep, not that the world is coming to an end.
Wait, while I get my tin foil helmet on, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.