It appears that when you wrote:
> Ah, global cooling - the conveniently forgotten scientific consensus
you said it thinking it is essentially meaningless.
Obviously everything that you and I have written can be viewed through the same lens of manipulation.
There is therefore no point in continuing. I'll leave with a pointer to Asimov, who was writing about global warming since at least the early 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6tSYRY90PA&feature=youtu.be .