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Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House
Science data nerds writes "The White House is consistently and persistently claiming that the US is doing better than Europe in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is false — their claim is purely based on carefully selecting the only subset of the data that supports this conclusion. When all the data are used, it is plain that European emissions have declined substantially and US emissions have grown substantially. The article, and this linked analysis, debunk the White House claims."
Sorry, whoever told you that is either trying to deceive you or mindlessly spouting BS he heard elsewhere.
Why ?
Timescales. Yes, the sun will brighten as it gets older (or rather: it will appear more luminous because it increases in size, even though its temperature/brightness drops). It will have brightened by a whole fscking five percent in about one billion years. This isn't an effect that we're ever going to observe on anything close to a human timescale.
And why aren't we observing corresponding warming on all of then dozens of larged bodies in the solar system (no, Mars and Pluto don't count. They're just two and their warming definitely has other reasons. Pluto, for example, has just passed perihelion not too long ago and is still rather "close" to the sun).