WD is not always wrong, and, he reads Jane Austen! (Well done WD).
Some elaboration from me:

The name Bill McKibben is mentioned, a notorious alarmist.

Global surface temperature increased from 1880 to 1998.
Yes overall if official figures are believed, but there were decades of decreases thus proving the innocence of 'carbon' which has uniformly increased.

Since the Industrial Revolution, around 1740, average mean Earth surface temperatures may have increased as much as .7 of a degree Celsius
Yes, 'may'. But the earth was coming out of the little ice age. -as WD tells us.

97 percent of scientists agree..-
correct, after those who did not were selected out.

Carbon dioxide and certain trace gases in the atmosphere contribute to a greenhouse effect, trapping heat from the sun within our atmosphere.
Wrong. CO2 probably reflects out more heat than it lets in.
Maybe there is an effect but it is quantified by less than 1 degreeC per doubling of CO2, not the 4, 6, 8 or whatever the UN and alarmists claim.

Australian reefs.
A claim by a spurious minor well-reported study purporting to show bleaching damage has been demolished by more careful surveys.

Links to Nazism-
Yes valid, but the alarmists have it the wrong way round- the green movement use the same techniques, and is vehemently anti-Israel.

Also,
See 'normalization', how government agencies claim increasing temperatures despite data showing decreases. (realclimatescience.com)

Why this massive scam?
1. The weight of money, yours, via governments who benefit from more taxes and more scares.
2. Altruism, see Rand. I call it false altruism. Everyone wants to save the planet.

I think the most notable part of the whole article was the exposition that the entire reason for the scare tactics is to enable a centralized government with control over every aspect of life with the purported purpose of combating the weather! It's one of the greatest bait-and-switch ploys ever!

Nobody but the stupid indoctrinated steeple believe climate alarmism crap, but the elite have siphoned billions to trillions of dollars from us, and that's not even considering the opportunity costs. Pretty impressive scam, huh?

When I heard the phrase, "The science is settled" a few years ago, I knew it was a scam.

I don't even get alarmed about storms.

The older I get the more I like it warmer. Bring on global warming, if that's to be the earth's fate!

I deny climate alarmism because it has a clear basis in fraud. "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick...to hide the decline." Smoking gun.

I also deny climate alarmism because those who scream the loudest, refuse to pay some of the price they demand I pay. Clearly they don't even believe it themselves. They just want to bring about a world in which they have all the privileges and I carry all the burdens.

And last of all, I deny climate alarmism because it simply has proved false. All the alarms they have raised, have proved false.

Having done some geology study in college (luckily before the global warming craze), I understand that the earth has been going through these periods of warming and cooling for millions of years. It's as stupid to worry about climate change as it is about plant and animal evolution (including species extinction). These are just part of living on planet Earth, and humans will either adapt to all these ineluctable changes or become extinct. The only things that all these futile efforts will bring about are increased wealth for liberals like Al Gore and increased tyranny from collectivist governments and international agencies

Well, as far as i am concerned, when all the volcanoes are plugged, then we can begin to measure what effect man has on the climate.

My article was 100 percent convincing. No ONE person commenting, here, any longer believes in Big Climate alarmism. I do thank everyone for elaborating upon, analyzing, and sometimes correcting my thinking. Great response.

The most cogent statement to me was that trying to predict long term future weather is not possible. The rest, to me, is just so much gobbledegook. Of course, we know that it is just another way to put more control over the populace by the state.

About 15-19,000 years ago, much of North America was covered in glaciers, some over a mile deep. It was very cold in North America. Then the the climate warmed and those glaciers melted. Was that a tragedy? Did the Earth need saving at that time? Was the warming created by natives burning coal to generate electricity? A little bit of thinking goes a long way. Well that eliminates most self-described "progressives".

Tell a lie enough times . . . sigh. To whom? Low information sheeple? Or to just about anyone?
Another post overwhelmingly demonstrated that all you have to do is tell people that the Trump kids killed a triceratops in Africa and it is believed.
So in comparison, consider how much easier it must be to indoctrinate the gullible majority about manmade climate change.

Thanks for posting. Great humor with factual presentation.

Miami, FL. Have streets flooded at high tides for as long as the City has existed? If not, then it's not the ocean rising but the city sinking?

Good article. Love the way he combines humor with facts. It is so nice to hear someone else drives people around them crazy, like many of my friends and I do. It is so hard to hear talking points from someone with no science background, and know everyone is waiting for your argument. I have gone to asking them to please put their talking points in their own words, which they never can, and that ends it. It is never about saving the planet, it is about control of people, and some sheep are already in the paddock.