I was talking to two guys this fall. One was lamenting the fires in his home state of California. The other blamed it on the drought caused by global warming. I pointed out that this was the wettest spring and summer they have had in over 25 years and their problem had been flooding 6 months earlier. And the California guy, a democrat, had to admit, it was the rain and not the drought that caused the abundance of plant growth which fueled the fires. The second guy thought a minute and shot back, well climate change caused the rain too.
With thinking like that, you can’t win. You just shake your head.
We went skiing in March at Mt. Bachelor in Oregon. There was a guy skiing there from the People’s Republic of California. We asked him why he came so far to ski when there were so many places in his own state. He said that because of global warming, there was no snow this year. I thought I remembered hearing about record snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada. That is the mindset that we are dealing with.
He's right. From no rain to rain is a change of climate. Hence climate change. Happens a few times every year for hundreds of years.