Climate change is a hoax? Came upon this video and am now less certain about climate change. Please help.

TL:DR; of his claims (roughly): Global warming ended in 1998. There has been NO global warming in 15 years.

Warming did not end in 1998. It's a false meme that is nothing more than cherry picking and is based on the crappy RSS data set. You have 6 other temperature data sets that show warming in the 90's and 00's. The warming has accelerated in the past few years making 2014, 2015, and 2016 the hottest years on record.

Global warming from 1998 onward was replaced by cooling.

Again, what data set are you using?

Antarctic ice sheet is growing, not melting.

So what? Notice that he failed to mention Greenland and the Arctic sea ice extent? The Antarctic is gaining 80 Gigatons of ice per year. The Greenland ice sheet is losing 250 Gigatons of ice per year. That is a total of 170 Gigatons of ice loss. The Arctic sea ice extent is at an all time low at this moment. He failed to tell you that because that would dispel with his is narrative of cooling. Why the failure to mention those? What is his agenda?

Sea level is rising 7" per century, not 20 ft.

There is a great deal of uncertainty in predicting sea level rise. You can't take the current rate of sea level rise and just project it into the future. You have to anticipate a change in the rate of rise. Climate change is going to change the rate of rise. By how much and how soon? That is still being debated. The minimum projections have it at 3 feet of rise by 2100.

Snowfall has been breaking records past 5 years.

More heat energy being dumped in the climate system means more precipitation.

CO2 cannot cause global warming.

So you deny a basic fact of physics that has been established since the late 1800's? C02 traps long wave infrared. Humanity has known this fact for over a 100 years. That's not new science. That is basic science.

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