It's becoming really tiresome to see prominent American conservatives (or people from other countries who very much align with the political ideology) swallow the climate change conspiracy theory that seems to go hand-in-hand with the political ideology.
It's especially annoying when they keep repeating the same utterly stupid arguments.
For example, every time that record low temperatures are measured somewhere, they immediately jump to "see? The whole climate change thing is a hoax!"
Sigh! Why do they think we are seeing temperature record after record after record, at an increasing rate in recent years? Both temperature low and temperature high records. Seems that not a year passes by without a bunch of such records being broken somewhere.
Well, duh. Because the climate is changing. That's why. That's exactly why we are seeing temperature records being broken at an ever-increasing rate. Both extremes are become more and more extreme by the year. This is not something that goes against the climate science predictions. This is exactly what climate science predicts! The record temperatures, very much including the record low temperatures, support the climate science, they don't go against it! Climate science has always predicted that as global temperature goes up, both extremes will become more extreme: Historically cold places will see record low temperatures, historically hot places will see record high temperatures, again and again.
The problem is that the total yearly average temperature of the entire Earth is trending upwards. (It doesn't necessary go upwards every single year, but the long-term trend is upwards. In other words, if we look at the curve at a longer scale, like 20 or 30 years, it's going clearly upwards.)
Every single time a record low temperature is announced somewhere and the same American conservative pundits jump to the occasion to point their finger and shout "see? See? It's all a hoax!" I facepalm. They are pointing at a correct prediction by climate science and saying that it's evidence that the science is wrong. How can the science be wrong when it predicted exactly what would happen? That is evidence that the science was right!
What would be evidence against the climate science predictions if there were no significant temperature records being broken anywhere. The lack of record low (and high) temperatures would be evidence against the science, not their existence.
This is one of the reasons why I just can't align myself with American conservatism. It gets many things right (mostly those related to Classical Liberalism), but also many things very wrong.
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