Fake claims about the weather attributed to global warming keep getting more extreme and absurd, which requires some correcting.

I observed the weather changes over the past forty years from a farm in South Dakota where I was living. Farmers pay close attention to the weather. South Dakota provided a very informative vantage point, because it's weather comes from the Pacific Ocean most of the time, while influences from the Gulf of Mexico come northward and create the weather for the corn belt. The corn belt covers the eastern third of South Dakota, while the western part is parched grasslands.

Starting in 1980, the weather in central South Dakota became very unusual. Rain was appearing in January, when temperatures are typically twenty below Fahrenheit. Total rainfall vastly increased for the next twenty years, which moved the corn belt about a hundred miles further west in South Dakota. Corn was being picked around my place, where grazing cattle and wheat were the usual crops. At the same time, winter temperatures were much milder than usual, and summer heat was far less than usual. Increased precipitation does that. The cloud cover and evaporation keep heat down during the summers.

This result was caused by the Pacific Ocean heating on the surface. Ocean surface temperatures are the strict determiners of precipitation and related results. During this time, El Nino events were occurring often, which results from excessive heat on the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

In 1998, a severe drought occurred. Gradually, the weather reverted back to normal, as the surface of the Pacific Ocean cooled back down.

Ice covering the Arctic paralleled these events with some delay. As warm ocean water flowed over the Bering Strait, it melted polar ice. When the Pacific Ocean cooled back down, the Arctic ice began to increase.

None of this could possibly have the slightest relationship to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Whatever causes the Pacific Ocean to warm up, it isn't carbon dioxide. If it were, there would be no cool-down later. One major reason why is because air temperature does not have the slightest ability to influence ocean temperature. Oceans control the atmosphere; the atmosphere does not control the oceans. The primary reason is because air has very low heat capacity compared to water. It means the air runs out of heat real fast when in contact with water. The oceans have 1,000 times as much heat capacity as the atmosphere. On top of that evaporation requires huge amounts of heat (540 times as much, increased by salt), which would also have to originate with the atmosphere, if carbon dioxide were the cause of the warming and increased evaporation.

These cyclic changes go on continuously leading up to the next ice age, which is scheduled to occur within the next few centuries. The apparent cause is that solar heat accumulates in the oceans and is not easily released until the next ice age occurs. The cyclic nature of the Pacific Ocean is caused by water flowing over the North Pole and melting Arctic ice. It flows back South by entering the Atlantic and joining the so-called oceanic conveyer. This process is cyclic due to the cooling effect of Arctic ice.

No where in this process is so-called global warming or carbon dioxide the slightest bit relevant.