Global Warming is Industrially Suppressed Middle-School Science

The 15% of the American public that denies global warming probably used middle-school science texts in which the topic was omitted at the behest of Big Oil. We attempt to remedy this with a simple explanation of the process, in which the 33°C difference between the Stefan-Bolzmann astrophysical -18°C temperature of the solar-heated planet and the Weather Bureau's comfortable 15°C sea-level temperature is defined as Ordinary Global Warming (OGW). Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is then a 2°C extension of OGW. We relate this process to the Little Ice Age, the Hockey Stick, and the implacable future course of warming. A 1.5 ppb annual drift of CO₂ from air to leaves to detritus (reversed during a T-Rise) is adequate as a driver of glaciation. We close with an adaptive example of what it will take for society to survive (i.e, reverse AGW) if we stop adding CO₂ immediately.