There is verifiable data covering hundreds if thousands of years showing a routine, predictable rise and fall in Temps. There is verified and un doctored data over the last 20 years demonstrating virtually unchanged global mean temp.Now everybody is producing graphs and opinion to prove their point. There is little consensus in these arguments. It is easy to produce graphs over a limited period to prove that there was a pause in global warming but none of these graphs cover 200 years. Opinions can be produce to say that some places are getting colder but there is no scientific evidence that this is a world wide trend. Explanation that this a natural change and that it will change in the future is just opinions You can not forecast how NATURE WILL REACT IN THE FUTURE.
EVEN OPINIONS ABOUT THE EFFECT Co2 are DIVIDED . I have tried to read SCIENTIFIC STATEMENTS ABOUT CO2 BUT find them CONFUSION. EXAMPLE THE FIRST ONE I SAW WAS Richard Jordy in New Phytologist. He seems to say that sometimes CO2 comes with global warming , sometimes it does not.
Statements that new coal mine are being open in various parts of the world prove nothing. New mines are replacing old mines because they are less polluting. Clean coal in being experiment with . It might work but it would be better than keeping dirty old mines open.
In theUSA I understand most of the mines in the rust belt states have been closed. The companies that ran them have gone bankrupt. To open them would cost a fortune and being old mines they will be dirty.
Not opinion aussie, science.