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He does this by citing a study that says it's warming and he reads it wrong. I believe it says the earth is in a cooling period and he stops there. What it says is yes, there is a natural cooling and heating cycle, and we are in the cooling period of that cycle BUT we are heating dispite this period. We are getting hotter faster in the cooling period than we ever know the earth heated naturally.
It's like it's bed time, we are awake and blaming the caffeine but he insists "no we are asleep because I read it's bed time"
Yeah, if you look at a chart it’s plainly obvious the Earth was going to cool. But then we industialized.
Climate Town did a good video on this: https://youtu.be/r1bMJekCiBw
To paraphrase, the graph in question is so zoomed out (to include all earth's history) that it's like asking someone to tell you what colour a specific roof is from a satellite image of an entire country. (If you do zoom in to the relevant parts climate change is obviously happening)