Especially about the “hottest” part... it’s like the urban heat island phenomenon with respect to temperature data has not reached these folks’ ears?
By only focusing on a few isolated hobby horses in near vacuums (how’s that for mixing a metaphor), the AGW folks have managed to fool both themselves (I believe) as well as definitely fooling others.
Urban living uses more energy and creates more pollution than country living. The proof is urbanites have to spend much more money to live their lifestyle. Price is one of the most honest indicators of how much total energy something uses.
Urbanites build their power plants in the countryside, so they enjoy the benefits of them but not the pollution. Half their waste heat is dissipated in rural areas, so the urban heat island effect is actually twice as bad as observed.
It would be easy to implement carbon taxes on urbanites. 85% of them are leftists so would vote for these taxes with gusto. They should just ignore fly over country and move on with their communist agenda. The country folks might also want to vote for a carbon tax on the power plants that pollute their areas but send power into the cities. It's a winning approach to this political opportunity. Make city slickers pay for their more energy intensive lifestyle.
One side effect to ponder is urban carbon taxes will contribute to the browning of our cities as the remaining whites flee to a more peaceful and lower carbon footprint lifestyle. That will increasingly concentrate crime and welfare hotspots away from the suburbs. Minorities will also increasingly bear the brunt of terrorist attacks, virus and bacteria outbreaks, nuclear bombings, and Democrat politicians kissing their babies.