Mmmmm, that some tasty Global Warming

Notice how each year seems to be ZOMG teh hottest EVAH!!!1!!eleventy!?  Every year, we get those stories.  I gotcher hottest evah right here:

Snow has fallen in downtown Auckland [New Zealand] for the first time in 80 years as a 'once in a lifetime' polar blast spreads across New Zealand, forecasters say.

Widespread reports of snow emerged this afternoon as bitterly cold and stormy conditions set in around Auckland.

Weatherwatch.co.nz this afternoon confirmed snowflakes had fallen in Auckland city centre for the first time since the 1930s.

This is the point where the Usual Suspects™ get all huffy, and say that:

1. Weather is not climate.
2. It's not Global Warming, it's Climate Change.  Err, Global Climate Disruption, or whatever the memo from Marketing said.
3. Denier!

Whatever.  We keep getting "weather not climate" falling all over the place.  At least in Auckland it isn't accumulating, but ever notice how a hot spell (reference: Austin, TX) is proof positive of Global Warming?

Err, Climate Change, or whatever you call it.

Fiddle with the data all you like; do your "gridding" and "homogenation" and "adjusting" to your heart's content.  Use dodgy statistical methods in your "peer reviewed" papers.  Keep refusing to disclose your data or computer code, even after Freedom Of Information Act requests.  Go ahead and blame it all on the LOLcats.  Keep using Greenpeace "scientists" to write the IPCC reports.   Keep using a sample size of two in your "scientific" reports.  Or one.

It won't keep snow from falling when you say it's ZOMG teh hottest evah!!!1!!eleventy!!  Or the hottest day in America's history was in 1913.

Maybe this is why people think you fudge your work.

Via email from Rick.