Edit: I know how to google myself but I am asking people to get a little more involved and not lay out facts out of memory. I thought I could make a good discussion on the topic but kept getting hostility for some reason.
> According to different observational records of global average annual near-surface (land and ocean) temperature, the last decade (2008–2017) was 0.89 °C to 0.93 °C warmer than the pre-industrial average, which makes it the warmest decade on record. Of the 17 warmest years on record, 16 have occurred since 2000. The year 2017 was one of the world’s three warmest years on record together with the years 2016 and 2015.
> The average annual temperature for the European land area for the last decade (2008–2017) was between 1.6 °C and 1.7 °C above the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. In Europe, 2017 was colder than the previous 3 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
Do bear in mind that most of the costs of global warming are based around:
1) It is happening much faster than we can cope with. If it was happening over 10,000 years then we'd slowly adapt. Or die out. One or the other.
2) Our cities are mostly built on coastlines, and will therefore be hit dramatically by severe weather and by sea rises.
This graph shows just how far off the norm we are for the past two millenia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
You also say you think the last decade seemed colder, the reply you got was that 16 of the 17 hottest years since recording began were after 2000. But you ignore that part of the reply.
You are working for the forces that want to stop our mitigation of the problem, you are the enemy.
It is no use to try to win them over, that's not why they're arguing.