Ad Hoc Junk Science | Real Science

Ad hoc explanations have become the norm in climate science.

Cold winter? No problem. Just make up some nonsense with a few technical words thrown in about Rossby waves and missing Arctic ice. Heat gone missing? Just say it sank to the bottom of the ocean undetected. Lack of hurricanes? No problem – just name lots of clouds and call it an extraordinarily active hurricane season. Want a record heatwave? Just ignore temperatures before 1960. Want a record tornado season? Ignore records before 1980.

These experts are completely full of shit and clearly don’t understand very much about how science is done. You know who I am talking about.

Alice Springs - Plumbers flat out during record cold

Burst water pipes all over town are keeping local plumbers busy as a new cold weather record is set in Alice Springs (Australia),” says this article by Emma Sleath.

By Saturday (when we hit a chilly -5.2 degrees), Alice Springs had endured five nights in a row of minimum temperatures below -4, a new record in the region.

The Reference Frame: New York Times: We are all climate change idiots

Yes, if you see a climate change staring in your face and if you think that the need to reduce planet-warming emissions has grown "urgent", despite the fact that the global temperature trend in the last 15 years is zero (slightly negative, in fact), then you are a climate change idiot, indeed.

You Don`t Have To Be A Journalist To Know That The New York Times Has Problems | Real Science

Had David stepped outside on the afternoon of July 21, 1934, temperatures would have been about 35 degrees warmer.

Superstitious people like David Leonhardt are invariably the ones who lead societies into serious trouble. It is called summer, not a climate problem.