Note again:<p>&quot;The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2014 was the highest among all years since record keeping began in 1880.&quot;<p>The science identified the reason for it, it was estimated long ago and it&#x27;s known. Long term means that we can, as maybe too simplified example, expect on the average only once in decades to get the new whole-world all times high (the fluctuations are the property of the system) but that they will steadily come, the trend is: &quot;hotter&quot; on the average. Not every single year.<p>&gt; predictions for twenty to fifty years out are nothing but hedge bets.<p>Wrong. CO2 in atmosphere, the impact of it are the facts, and the speed it increases isn&#x27;t something that can change much without willful action.<p>&gt; all the alarmism that many spread in the late 90s and early 2000s about how dire the weather would be by now never panned out.<p>Please any citation of &quot;alarmism&quot; from the real scientists (that is, an example of something such claimed by scientist, that was since disproved and that was believed by more than a few percent of scientists).<p>The IPCC reports are the result of the world&#x27;s climate scientists.