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First, these agencies point out that it is statistically impossible to calculate an average global temperature. What they do publish is an estimate of temperature anomalies from an estimated trend that is assumed to have prevailed over several past decades. Their published record documents that there has been no significant change in the temperature anomalies over the past two decades, particularly when adjusted for the 2015-16 El Nino effect.

Their published records also show that the rise in the ocean levels was a mere 0.12 inches per year; that the oceans remain solidly alkaline (not acidic); that the Antarctic continent’s ice (which holds over 90% of all global ice) is not shrinking; that global forests are absorbing more CO2 than had previously been assumed; and that from a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands have shown significant greening over the last 35 years, largely due to rising levels of atmospheric CO2.