"Empirical Data"? None of this is happening . . . Arctic Ice . . . today . . . NORMAL ! ! ! Ocean Acidification . . . a change from 8.7 to 8.5 is NOT ACIDIFICATION . . . any moron with a swimming pool knows this ! ! ! Increased Land Temperatures . . . you talking about the RECORD COLD Winters in Asia, Russia and Europe ! ! ! Rising Sea Levels . . . Laughable . . . a couple of millimeters in the last 30 years ! ! !