Sen. Jim DeMint’s tongue-in-cheek tweet the other day caused a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth among alarmists suddenly scrupulous again about the distinction between weather and climate. In walking through the alarmist/skeptic back-and-forth today, Reason’s Ronald Bailey frames the issue nicely with a simple question:

I note that the left-leaning Center for American Progress’ climate change blogger Joe Romm asserts that…
…heavier, more frequent snowstorms and other extreme weather events are consistent with the predictions of leading climate scientists throughout the world that global warming is occurring.
Fair enough. But are there any kind of weather events that would be inconsistent with man-made global warming? Just wondering. Let’s just stick with long-term trends as evidence for or against man-made climate change . . .