The reality being that global temperatures have peaked, and we are headed into a period of Global Cooling.

The thing about the name is made-up. The terms are synonymous. The fact that some people are alarmist and/or anti-capitalist does not alter the reality of global warming.

On the East Coast of Florida, if you are west of US1, you're generally OK. The storm surges don't come far inland.

Also, if things get dicey in Washington DC, down here we have a 400-mile head start, in case we need to get out of Dodge.

I would love that situation, except for the storm issues. Grandparents had a beach house facing intracoastal waterway that flooded a dozen times over the years.
Sailing and fresh fish for dinner sounds idyllic most of the time though.

My backyard ends on a canal that has sailboat access to the ocean. My house is almost 60 years old. I can see where the high and low tide lines were a half-century ago by looking across the water at my neighbors' seawalls.

If sea levels are rising, then it's measured in millimeters/year, and not feet/year.

https://realclimatescience.com/2016/0...

Temperatures rise. Temperatures fall.

This is why climate alarmists—who weirdly are unanimous in their anti-capitalist worldview—no longer talk about Global Warming™, but instead Climate Change™.

"People start with a desire for something to be true and then ignore reality."
Nice that you recognize that you are doing it every time you promote GW. Unfortunately it hasn't stopped your irrational public support for unscientifically derived anthropomorphic GW propaganda.
If you want to waste your time on GW that's fine; it's your time. Just stop being a communist and trying to steal assets from the rest of us who can see that anthropomorphic GW is not a danger and nothing more than a scam to loot from us and give power to the unproductive.

" this global warming hoax"
This sounds silly to me, close to the moonlanding hoax. To be fair, it's actually closer to claims that GMOs have health risks or that homeopathy is real. People start with a desire for something to be true and then ignore reality. Just like with other people want to be true, e.g. Bermuda Triangle, extra-terrestrial visitors, various conspiracies, anti-vax, ESP, they want to keep testing the hypothesis that mainstream scientific thought is wrong. They cling to any anomalies in the data and invent scenarios where the scientific establishment is conspiring to hide the truth.

In Frank Herberts "Dune-ChapterHouse" novel goes into some detail of converting a planet into an extensive desert. According to Michu Kaku, Earth's civilization would have to be a Type 1 to be able to control the weather.

Nightwings by sci fi writer Robert Silverberg,

Centuries in the future humans found a way to control the climate.
Exploration of the galaxy was the next step.
The climate control worked well, at first, then there were global scale disasters.

Fortunately, in space exploration some extra-terrestrial civilizations were contacted,
they were friendly enough to lend money and resources to attempt remedies.

Then, it turned out that that this friendship also came at a price.

There is nothing that can block particle forcing from the sun nor the cosmos...there are particles that simply go right through you, right through the earth...not even monotonic gold. You can save yourself from cooking from radiation and block light but that's it. You still have the electromagnetics and quantum particles smaller than electrons to deal with.

The law of unintended consequences would be seen in full force. The systems that control the weather on this planet are too vast and random for us to understand at this time and, as has been noted, while the weather my be beneficial for some, the energy, moisture, wind has to either come from somewhere or go to somewhere, leaving those places worse off.

Don't worry. It can't be done (thank goodness.) It would cause chaos, and a civil war, not just between two sides, but from multiple directions, and endless war of "all against all", or something similar; perhaps then eventually, one gang would get in power and impose its will on every-
one else. But don't worry. If two plus two could somehow be made to equal five, that would result in horrible consequences in banks, at cash registers, in medical prescriptions, and who knows what----but it can't be done, so you can rest easy on that score.

HAARP and weather control is not only possible, but has been and continues to be, used as a “super weapon”

The increase in average temperature at the about 1 degree Celsius per century is easily adaptable by living things just as they have little problem to live with temperature changes of tens or more degree changes in daily temperature ranges as well as yearly changes of a hundred or more degrees F in some areas.
Actually, the more prosperous countries have the cleanest atmospheric environments. Certain emissions should be reduces, but not CO2 unless one wants to cause wholesale death with the reduction in food production. The world could use at least a doubling of atmospheric CO2 just to keep up with population increases. That would increase the average world (?) temperature by about 1.5 degree C. The most prolific life increase was with much higher CO2 in the atmosphere.
At present there is one CO2 molecule per 2500 molecules of atmosphere. Even at one per 1000, the CO2 molecule cannot exchange the average energy of the other molecules to increase by energy exchanges. The atmosphere is heated mostly by conduction with convection and advection with radiation doing most of the energy release to space through CO2 rather than the heating of the Earth, while O2, N2, and Ar do not radiate well in the infrared.

Some years ago, I read a great science fiction short story, about the issue of this kind of climate control.

In the story, people had colonized several planets and each planet was climate controlled to mimic a different continent, like Africa, for instance. Then, only "Africans" populated this planet and everybody was happy...at first.

The story continued with an African shaman doing something that ticked off the central government, who's main hold on the people was...you guessed it, control of their climate.

I'll let you use your imagination, from there...

Stumbling isn't necessary! I could draft up a "Climate Machine" in just a few minutes. There is NOTHING in the design that we with out current level of technology can't implement. The ONLY deterrent is cost.

Of course, the machine would begin to influence the climate long before it's completed. That said, the planet would compensate for the disturbance which would mean the effectiveness of the machine would be questioned. It would however provide an excellent demonstration of the effects of negative feedback at the planetary scale.

Only by continuing to enlarge the machine would its owners be capable of dialing in the desired climate effects at will.

FWIW said machine could probably be built for a few trillion dollars to demonstrate the process and several tens to hundreds of trillions to achieve the level of total control.

-- In Liberty

Climate has been defined in the past by scientists as the weather patterns for a local area. As such, climate is measurements about weather in local areas. It is not something that can be changed and is not a causative existent. The measurements change as weather changes and not when climate causes them to change. When climate is changed to 'The Climate' for the Earth by averaging all the local climate measurements, one ends up in a fantasy dream world of believing that climate can cause some changes in the weather patterns. Again, climate cannot cause anything outside of the human body. It is a mental object, a concept in the brain which can only cause the body in which the brain resides to act or not act.

As for changing the weather patterns locally, it is done easily by heating and air conditioning devices where one can keep the temperature in a comfortable range as long as the devices are mostly isolated from the outside weather.

Measurements of all kinds are not reifiable, i.e., exist only in minds within brains and do not exist as objects in objective reality. Same for all concepts, they are not ideals in some Platonic reality but are a way of defining and knowing and acting with that which exists in objective reality.

They were able to temporarily change it for a limited area and time. HAARP and HAMP can cause disruptions, like bending the jet stream, but not worldwide. Since scientists don't seem to know about the Sun contorlling climate, and none of them mention the beginning switching of the Earth magnetic poles, don't think any of them are that good at science to pul it off yet, as the dumb them down with each graduating class.

Please stop mentioning this global warming hoax!

Thanks. I was going to post this. I have a friend who really believes this. So far I haven't read anything to prove or disprove the theory. Is anybody familiar with this, and is it a hoax?

Who says they have not already done it?

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/a...

There goes the planet. Vain little men getting to mess with a new great big toy.
And which scientists are we talking about?

Okay, simply not true. One would simply have to construct something that blocked the sun at will.

Like those Fraggin' Flat Earthers who suggest the MOON is "man-made", but satellites aren't possible (ROTFLMAO)

First, it would be corrupted.
Second, they would, in the "good intentions" spirit of STOPPING FOREST FIRES, cause some MASSIVE earth destroying event.

Mans ignorance is ONLY EXCEEDED by his arrogance!

The repercussions of such changes might not be understood for 1,000 years!

Imagine the next society finding some of our buried cities, and their history, and FALLING out of their chairs laughing...

"Then, they Proved they could control the weather, and decided to go for it!"
[Laughing: OMG, such idiots. It's like giving a bunch of Chimps a nuclear device AND the detonator!]