Despite the self-serving claims of the United Nations, there is not a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide drives changes in world temperature. In fact, the world temperature is pretty flat, estimated by satellite at about 0.13 C per decade. The natural oscillation suggests that there may be a slight downturn in the coming years.Much of the fear induced by the media and others comes from extrapolating small changes to dramatic changes in the future. The money, after all, is in parrotting the orthodoxy.