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Temperature has been changing for millions of years. It's not gonna stop, whether that be up, or down.

Honestly Badge, this line of thinking should be expanded upon.  

The carboniferous period started about 350 million years ago.  This was the very first time the earth had seen trees.  Bacteria had yet to evolve that could feed off of trees, and it took around 60 million years for them to evolve.

Over this 60 million years the trees would fall and simply lie there.  Eventually they would be compressed by other falling trees, and over millions of years this turned into coal.  90% of the coal we burn today is from the carboniferous period.  For 60 million years trees took Carbon out of the atmosphere and buried it deep in the earth.

Our earth wobbles slightly on its axis.  For now, our axis points to the north star.  However, over a 41,000 years period we have a variability of about 2.5 degrees.   Our orbit also slightly elongates and shortens over about 100,000 years.  The combination of these factors is responsible for nearly all of our ice ages.  Right now we are ever so slightly heading into an ice age.

Massive volcanoes and asteroid impacts have filled the atmosphere with so much particulate matter they caused massive cooling.

These are all events that have happened in the past.  What we are seeing now is something entirely different.

Everyone take a deep breath. And please, do not exhale.

This is actually part of the normal carbon cycle and doesn't matter. 

If you dig up carbon that has been buried for 300 million years and then release it into the atmosphere, that is an addition to the carbon cycle, and that's where the additional CO2 in our atmosphere has come from.

Taking it seriously is fine, but it doesn't change anything, it's just general opinion.

What changes things is a concrete plan, or at least the outline of one.  One doesn't exist because it can't exist.  Numbers don't lie.  So, we get stuff like what's on Biden's web site which to me reads like some high school project, it's not serious.  It's puffery.

And again what we do HERE is a small piece of the puzzle.  The numbers don't lie.

Politicians are making rather gradual changes for votes so they can look good, but it simply is not nearly enough.

How big an impact do you see the elections making?

How much closer will we be to our goals by 2030 if the right people win in 2020?  10%?  1%?  0.1%?

A large percentage of one side doesn't believe there's a problem at all.

The other side at least acknowledges the problem, but I also have my doubts about what they can do.

Kind of a running theme in American politics at this point.

That is the question that the Climate Change'rs will never answer. The Earth's climate is changing . . . just like it has done since the Earth had a climate. There is NO standard climate and never has been. It is in a constant state of change.

The question at hand is are mankind's actions having an adverse affect on the climate? Some would argue that it is and some would argue they are not.

Personally, I do believe that man's actions have an affect on the climate, however that affect is so minuscule when compared to something like a large volcanic eruption. Now that is not to say that we should just do whatever we want and continue to pollute the oceans and the air. We as humans need to be responsible for our environment. We should do what we can to reduce or eliminate pollution as best we can. But we also should NOT bankrupt ourselves in the process.

Man's use of fossil fuels over the past 120+ years has done more to extend lives and feed people than the entire history of mankind prior to that. Telling people that we no longer need those things is foolish and short sighted.

Another question I would ask of those that are pushing Climate Change is, knowing that the spot in which I am currently sitting was covered by a mile thick sheet of ice some 10,000 years ago, what made that ice disappear? Was it cave men driving SUV's? Too many Woolly Mammoth farts?

Let's face it. The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change as it has always been. That big orange, sometimes visible orb in the sky dictates our climate more than mankind ever could, even if they tried.

You should read my post to badge above.

To answer your question -- Milankovitch cycles.  According to them we should be heading into an ice age, yet we continue to warm.

Let's not minimize the impact of the burning of fossil fuels on earth's climate.  It's quite huge.

Taking it seriously is fine, but it doesn't change anything, it's just general opinion.

What changes things is a concrete plan, or at least the outline of one.  One doesn't exist because it can't exist.  Numbers don't lie.  So, we get stuff like what's on Biden's web site which to me reads like some high school project, it's not serious.  It's puffery.

And again what we do HERE is a small piece of the puzzle.  The numbers don't lie.

Politicians are making rather gradual changes for votes so they can look good, but it simply is not nearly enough.

His website is simplified for the masses.

Hillary Clinton went into massive detail on her campaign website, and it totally backfired. 

For example, her plans for revitalizing West Virginia were incredibly detailed and specific.  Definitely not for the layman.  Trump came in and said he was going to bring coal back.  We know how that went.

I think Biden is trying to put his plan out there, but not have it mired boring and technical details.

Let's imagine, as it's true, that this isn't a political issue in Europe.  So they should be sailing along, right?  Just making HUGE reductions in CO2 production, as they is a broad consensus they need to, and politicians on all sides support it, and nobody is dragging their heels.

Is this a fair assessment?

Europe is huge.  Some countries are doing better than others.