It's cold outside. Stop telling us it's not.

It's very cold outside, especially for December. This should be clear to anyone who's outside in the northern half of the U.S., or Canada. So when I read this tweet last night, it didn't sit well with me.

I thought I could let it go, but I ended up doing a rant in the car when I was freezing in our single-digit weather here in central Pennsylvania. This is the short version (for additional thoughts, watch the long version):

He's not alone -- the New York Times is essentially saying the same thing. My main points are these:

Global warming proponents often try to cover up cold outbreaks by saying they are "caused by" or "in spite of" global warming. If the globe truly is warming, we shouldn't see any major cold events, and yet we keep seeing them. Andrew keeps digging his hole deeper, changing the title of the article several times last night and this morning:

The original headline, by the way, is Mashable's unabashed, childish way of trying to get clicks from millennials. We don't engage in that sort of chicanery on AccuWeather.com. We also don't present full-page advertisements that you can't close, when you try to read our blogs. That shows a lack of journalistic integrity that should make readers question what they see there.

He continues defending his treatise, but offers no additional data this morning, adding these tweets:

What's that saying about banging your head against a wall? On Facebook in reply to my rant, Andrew said,

While they did describe the cold in the first half of the article, they spent the second half of the article trying to debunk themselves, saying,

So they say non-monthly/all-time records aren't important when describing global warming, but then use those daily records to "prove" it, saying,

They essentially patronize the reader, saying, "I know you think it's cold, but it's really not because it's global warming." People don't buy that, I don't think.

As to "global warming" itself, don't let the media fool you -- it may not even exist. Here's a graph of the temperatures recorded via satellite for the last 20 years. Do you see any warming?

What little warming does exist can be easily explained by urbanization of weather stations. The stations that we claim to be official don't even meet NOAA's own rules for siting. We've got weather stations next to air conditioner heat sinks, on asphalt... none of these mistakes would be made by most amateur, certainly any professional installing a weather station at their home. Trust me, from installing thermometers my whole life --

Andrew and his cohorts like to make fun of the report that global temperature has crashed in the last month, but here's the data:

I don't understand why the global warming proponents keep sticking to their refrain from 1998 (when temperatures went up temporarily during an El Nino event, like they did earlier this year). I don't understand why they ignore solar cycles (which may be ushering in global cooling). It's either not wanting to admit they were wrong, or not wanting to lose funding for their research.

There are always scientists, throughout history, who are convinced by their own egos that they must be correct. Just ask Galileo.

Just how wrong are the climate scientists like Andrew Freedman? The graph below shows every climate computer model's predictions as lines -- while the actual global temperatures are shown as blue dots. Every single one is outside the projections. It's time to admit we were wrong about the warming, start talking about the effects of regional climate change.

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