Greetings totally_screwed,
Before we can discuss the general scientific consensus on GW we need to define what is being agreed on.
If the consensus is that the earth's climate has changed, is changing and will change, then sign me up as a believer. It is common knowledge that the earth has been both hotter and colder than it is now and that the polar bears have survived just fine through this alongside humans.
If the consensus is that humans have caused significant global warming by means of CO2 emissions, that this will result in a catastrophe, and that humans have the power to reverse GW then I have to be listed as a skeptic.
There is no need to find an actual conspiracy of "scientists" to reach any consensus view you care to list. The simple fact that they are paid huge amounts of money to study certain phenomena with the goal of proving pre-defined outcomes predisposes them to reach the conclusions that are most likely to keep the grant money coming.
Why do we need pay these above mentioned scientists to model the climate when even a child can read a thermometer? You can find your own sources of historical weather station data if you don't like mine.
In case you don't make it to the bottom of the list; I see NOTHING SCARY in this data. No reason to take any special action.
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Alaska:
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