When it’s hot, it’s climate.  When it’s cold, it’s weather. And when the weather gets warmer, that proves the climate is changing.  And it’s your fault.

Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled The fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted. Picture: DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream. In [...]

…except when it is. The great thing about climate change belief, like many religious systems, is that everything proves it and nothing disproves it. When you have record cold somewhere, the climate change believer says a) that “weather is not climate” (in other words, this is just a statistical blip and doesn’t detract from the [...]

…is how the whole thing is conducted, not in the language of science, but in the language of religion. My primary interest in the climate change debate is, if you will, “work-related” as a Catholic writer. What strikes about the whole thing is twofold. First, as somebody whose job is working with words, my alarm [...]

Faster in the 30s. This reminds me of the time I was on a boat up near the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska a few years ago. Somebody was pointing out how far the glacier had receded. (It was easy to see because the rock was worn smooth where the glacier had been.) Much clucking about [...]

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it. – Phil Jones, Hadley Climate Research Unit That’s Phil Jones, of Climategate fame demonstrating that openness to skeptical inquiry that so differentiates science and [...]