I think (as Steve suggested in passing) that the name 'global warming' gets confused with the term 'climate change'.

Fact is that the globe/planet/Earth is warming. We know this: that's it, that's all. I suspect--but don't know for sure--that the oceans' are contributing to climate change. But many people are confusing climate with weather (à la climate's what ya expect and weather's what ya get sorta thing).

Weather is local and fairly specific. When a town ten miles away has snow and my town has none that's weather. It has happened often before and I expect it'll happen again. But other events are combining and seem to overwhelm whatever were the normal checks and balances that kept the system functioning in a manner we've come to think of as normal. We know about holes in the ozone layer and that that was initially scoffed at by people but is no longer. Virtually and literally, everything we do affects this planet in miniscule or gigantic ways, and please make no mistake about that. I don't know enough science--and even if I did most people wouldn't understand it--to prove that climate is changing, so I depend on scientists to keep me informed. Most scientists think we have changes happening to the world's climate.

Instead of arguing that what we see and experience happening isn't, maybe it's time to accept the planet/globe/Earth is in trouble and denying that is a big part of the problem. I hope TS Eliot was wrong.