Regarding your search, most of those links are explanations of why you're wrong. The problem is that scientists are saying something like, "Given the measuremen

Regarding your search, most of those links are explanations of why you're wrong. The problem is that scientists are saying something like, "Given the measurements we've made of the extra energy the earth is absorbing, we'd expect surface air temperatures to be rising even more rapidly than they are. The energy can't just disappear. Where is that extra energy going to?" What deniers hear is, "Computer models tell us the earth should be heating up and it isn't! The energy must be missing! The earth is cooling!" But, fair enough I should have said more than "just wrong". So allow me to explain why it's wrong and, since you don't like temperature data, we can do it talking about waves on a beach. Imagine you're measuring the height that waves come up a beach. You notice that if you look at, say, the last 30 measurements, you can see a clear upward trend: the tide is coming in. Now you'd like to determine whether or not the tide is turning. So you look at the last 16 measurements (it helps to start from that big wave 16 measurements back), and there you go - no significant increase in the height up the beach. Does that tell you whether the tide has turned or not? Well of course it doesn't. Otherwise you could continually find moments where the "tide was turning" simply by taking a short enough period of measurement. And you'd continually be wrong. What's the correct way of doing this? It's pretty simple. You check the longer term trend (tide is coming in) and then take the last 16 measurements and see if that trend is significantly different to your previous trend. This way adding data strengthens your findings, whereas with the previous way removing data strengthens your findings. So, basically, you're doing it wrong. Do it the correct way and then tell me what you find. As for: > the IPCC merely future proofed their gravy train. Well, there's no falsifying the Golden Rule: "it's all part of the conspiracy"