Women Climate Scientists Being Harassed, Insulted By Skeptics, Claims Berkeley Earth Researcher

The geographical distribution of weather stations is highly uneven, both spatially and temporally (for example, the abandonment of many stations in Siberia after the collapse of the USSR), and they are also affected by the urban heat island effect.

Even if the stations were beyond reproach and the homogenization methods entirely free of the slightest bias, we possess only 170 years of precise measurements, with limitations in geographical coverage, even though that coverage has improved considerably over time. One cannot compare less than two centuries of thermometer records with paleoclimatic archives, which are extremely valuable in their own right but are not comparable to weather station measurements because of differences in resolution. There is therefore no way of knowing whether current temperatures are truly “unprecedented,” since the available resolution is insufficient to determine that with confidence.

Attribution studies use computer programs, with and without anthropogenic greenhouse gases, to determine the probability of a given extreme event occurring with or without the human factor. Models are not test tubes or terrariums; they are tremendously imprecise abstractions of an extraordinarily complex system. Moreover, one of the explicitly stated objectives of attribution studies is to facilitate legal action against oil companies by producing compelling studies that generate impressive and easily understood figures. It is an admirable exercise in communication, but poor science. All of this will make excellent material for theses in epistemology and the sociology of science in a few decades, when the world has not collapsed.
For the most part, extreme events are not increasing, despite what the media and scientists turned communicators tell us when they claim that things are getting worse and worse. Temperatures are rising, which is not surprising given a rebound from the Little Ice Age, likely combined with human influences involving greenhouse gases, land-use change, and urbanization.
Simply mentioning the fact that hurricanes are not increasing, nor are hydrological, ecological, or agricultural droughts (according to the IPCC itself), can be enough to earn a torrent of insults from the Sphinxes of orthodoxy.
Generally speaking, there is rather less cold than more heat, despite certain undeniably impressive weather events, from which one should not draw hasty conclusions about increased probabilities, as the WWA does through the use of its computer models. Heat waves occurred during the Little Ice Age as well, even though it was a period of cooling (and, it should be added, widespread hardship).

People are living better and longer lives. Compare our lives with those of our great-grandparents: there is simply no comparison. The term “technosolutionism,” overused by alarmists, is merely a pejorative synonym for the word “progress.” Vaccines, for example, are a form of technosolutionism, as are waterproof clothing, aspirin, and antibiotics. Pushing the point further, one could say that the wheel itself is a form of technosolutionism, insofar as it is an engineering device designed to make the transport of heavy loads easier. The same could be said of the staircase, which is ultimately nothing more than an “optimized slope.” The point is not to equate the invention of the wheel with the use of vaccines or fossil fuels, but simply to emphasize that all these innovations belong to a continuum, and that rejecting “technosolutionism” is absurd, since if we are having this discussion today, it is because humanity has never ceased to make progress, despite the warnings and condemnations of Malthusians and catastrophists of every kind.
Finally, not a word is ever said about the professional and media harassment directed at skeptics, who are frequently branded as idiots, shills, or “deniers.” This last term draws a parallel with individuals who question, or outright deny, the existence of the gas chambers in which six million men, women, and children were murdered. This grotesque analogy is tolerated, and even socially encouraged (or at the very least, nothing is done to discourage it), solely because it serves to discredit skeptics of climate catastrophe, even at the cost of employing atrocious terminology.