"Elizabeth Muller, Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, said, “We have compelling scientific evidence that global warming is real and human caused, but much of what is reported as ‘climate change’ is exaggerated. Headlines that claim storms, droughts, floods, and temperature variability are increasing, are not based on normal scientific standards. We are likely to know better in the upcoming decades,"
Does Liz qualify as a luddite?
Do you think she has grandchildren?
see: http://berkeleyearth.org/a-second-half-dip-but-2016-hottest-on-record/
She goes on to say 
"It is certainly true that the impacts of global warming are still too subtle for most people to notice in their everyday lives.”
This is where the media comes to tell us that we should be scared, since evidently we would  not even notice it (CAGW) without these helpful stories.