EPA and Climate Change

Several years ago those who fear global warming noticed that the warming was not increasing at a greater rate than it had in the past, so they started referring to "climate change" as the focus of their concern. That way, any change in the weather - heat, cold, drought, flood - could be attributed to the effects of carbon dixoide in the atmosphere. Here's the parade of horrors from EPA, telling us all the signs of incipient climate doom, such as higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and increased storm intensity.

When one looks at the data, though, it turns out there is no greater frequency of storms or drought or rise in sea level. Temperatures are apparently increasing, at the same rate as they have since the end of the Little Ice Age, around the end of the 18th century (and long before people were putting significant amounts of carbon in the air), but nowhere near the calamitous rate forecast by computer models.