Indeed. The image at the top of the page (presumably the worst case scenario) has no legend. I'm guessing that the red is desert, but what counts as temperate? The South America blue or the South Africa yellow? Or are the colors a delta from the current temperatures?
It's amazing how easy it is to turn a 12TB deluge of pristine scientific data into something completely meaningless.
>We had global cooling fears in the 1970s.
No, we didn't. Climate scientists in the 1970s were predicting warming trends (the media just wasn't paying attention).
[0] http://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
>Then warming. Now "climate change."
Nope, the two terms have been used in the scientific community for decades. Climate change has always been the more popular term in numerical analysis of the scientific literature.
[1] http://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.ht...
>Yet industrial carbon output has risen exponentially and consistently since the industrial revolution yet temperatures haven't
This is factually inaccurate according to several datasets published by independent scientific organizations around the world. How many do you want? Let's start with NASA, Japan, and satellite data:
[2] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
[3] http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.h...
[4] http://nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
How many more do you want? There's also ocean heat content:
