That’s the helpful tip from Audubon North Carolina’s Andy Wood in an op-ed published in the N&O. Wood frets that the “climate change detractors” will make hay of this winter’s persistent cold spell to make some point about global warming that isn’t reflected by “observed phenomena proved with over a hundred years of data recorded
from around the globe, first by 19th century mariners, and now today’s
atmospheric research centers and climatologists.”

I’ll let Roy and others deconstruct Wood’s “proof” and just say this: When the climate change evangelists say a colder-than-normal winter is no sign that catastrophic global warming has abated, will they shut up already when “detractors” point out that a hot spell in August is no sign that the glaciers are boiling?

In other words, if weather isn’t climate during a cold winter, weather isn’t climate during a hot summer, either.