"I have at least one copy of Newsweek from the 80's.." See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. My guess is that you're a middle class white guy, age 55-7

"I have at least one copy of Newsweek from the 80's.." See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. My guess is that you're a middle class white guy, age 55-70, who learned during his formative years during the cold war that America was the greatest country ever, that we were beset from all sides by foreigners trying to destroy our way of life, and now, some 40 years later, your brain simply cannot accept anything that contradicts that fundamental narrative. I've seen it before. Your point of view on the world was essentially set in stone by the age of 20, and will never change. That's the world that to you seems normal, and anything else seems unreal and unbelievable. I don't claim to be personally an expert on anything climate related, but the entire scientific community is unanimous on this issue- media does tend to overhype climate change, but they hype up everything. They are not who I'm talking about. I'm referring to the specific predictions as far as degrees of warming of qualified scientists, which indicate that we should probably expect about 3 degrees of warming, more or less. Whereas you are a Random Stranger on the Internet, and I could easily give you lots of information and context disproving your vague and angry assertions ("screeching?"). But it won't make any difference, so I won't bother unless you show some signs of self awareness.