Climate Change...What's up with that?

During the last four or so decades that I have actually been paying attention to the world around me (prior to that time my biggest concerns generally were the warm feeling in my diaper or the empty one in my stomach), I have been very fortunate to have survived at least three, possibly four crisis that from all accounts should have brought an end to our planet. As I recall during every one of these events the general public and the popular media did their damnedest to convince the rest of us the the proverbial "sky was falling".
I have seen the end of the world predicted as follows...