I stopped a while back, but I used to keep a local record just by looking at the avg temp recorded on my electric bill.
Interestingly, this flattened out from its usual warming trend about four years ago, and began spiking again about two years ago. This coincided with an
unusually quiet period for sunspots, and for whatever stupid reason my little corner of the world happened to match the global trend in temperatures, not a result that is in any way indicative of anything other than mere coincidence.
Far as the global trend, of course the folks who try to deny anything is happening were all over that flattening. Once it started to go up again, I figured they'd be back to either denying that temps were going up - that beyond stupid fool Captain Obvious, in this thread - or back to denying it was CO2 - jem.
Meantime, the forests burn, the oceans get more acid, glaciers retreat more, my a/c works harder and my bill gets higher from day after day of 90+ in a place where that is very unusual, and my neighbor complains that she can't keep from watering because we never get a regular every day rain - it's always a torrent when it does come, and of course that means most of it doesn't do much good for the plants.
And corn prices will be high this year because of all this.
The only consolation: this year will look good ten years from now. And statistically the odds I'll be around when things really get bad, about a half century from now, is vanishingly low.
Which is nice, except my son and his children will be dealing with the mess we left behind, for no reason at all, considering all the technology to bring it all to a grinding halt already exists and is already technologically not only feasible but ready to be mass produced and used on a global, massive scale.
The only thing missing is some marginal funding, funding that is dwarfed by, say, the US defense budget.
Which is another way of saying the only thing missing is the will to fix this thing before it becomes a total mess.