First the “undoubted” effect of global warming on the Great Lakes was drought, now it is too much snow and rain. Whatever. The nice thing about “climate change” as a dogma is that the weather is guaranteed to change, so whatever happens is consistent with the theory that continues to bring in the big bucks.The expression for a patch to a model to explain this year's anomaly is ad hoc. Such as what happens when January takes place in the big coastal cities. Then it's "polar vortex." Sufficient ad-hoc-ery, though, might as well be indistinguishable from a millenarian cult.
Climate scientists can blame anything they want on global warming. The climate models are imprecise enough that no matter what is happening they can point to it as proof that man-made climate change is happening. Too much rain, too little rain, bitterly cold winters, mild winters, more snow, less snow, rising water levels, falling water levels — they can attribute “climate change” as a cause of it all.It's probably easier to get a platform on one of the fake news outlets by claiming catastrophe (and blaming it on Orange Man?) than it is to get to work.
Let the climate scientists continue to work on the complex dynamics by which changes in the sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide, atmospheric mixing dynamics, and the strengthening or weakening of the jet stream allow for the southward migration of the polar vortex, or equalize temperatures in the atmosphere such that there is neither jet stream nor polar vortex.That work on the complex dynamics has yet to capture some of the essential elements, including circulation of the oceans.
Moreover, even once the climatologists figure out cause and effect in a dynamical system, they might do well to respect a division of labor in policy making. "[L]et us unbundle the confirmation of climate change hypotheses from the discussion of policies to reduce human influences thereupon. Doing so is not as easy as it looks."
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