I will have to shoot this article down as a journalistic malpractice and a scientific nonsense.

Unhappily, none of the claims about the rising Earth temperatures, more frequent "Extreme
Weather" and the increasing rainfall in Sullivan County, NY are true. Such articles are written
by people who get their PhD in "journalism" these days by studying courses such as "Internet
and You" and "How to Understand Science." Yes, I checked.

I am not interested in political proclivities and a political bias of these authors and neither do I write from those positions myself.

But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations's data for Sullivan County, NY
available on the NOAA own website shows no increase in temperatures or rainfall in Sullivan
County, NY since the year 1895 ! The rising trend would have to demonstrate itself by higher
highs and higher lows but there is nothing like that whatsoever:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/time-series/NY-105/tavg/1/0/1895-2025

I will conclude by saying that scientists use scientific data. Charlatans (this is not a curse as the definition of a charlatan is "somebody who claims to have knowledge he or she does not posses") and politically biased journos jump on the scientifically unverified hypothesis of "climate change" without any scientific evidence. As a PhD wrote to me: "It is just common sense!"

It would be best to disassociate ourselves from such charlatan approach to science in the interest of truth and accuracy. Unhappily, such scientifically unverified articles appear frequently these days. I will only point out that we have been through a similar unscientific nonsense in the 1960s and the 1970s when the scientifically faulty claim of "global cooling" was defended with the same zeal by similarly scientifically deficient defenders.

With best regards,

Ivan Orisek, MSc (Eng.)
Forestburgh, New York
845-866-9971

P.S. As a side issue, it is well known that by grouping scientific data for 130 years shown above in a certain way and by selecting data in a certain way, it may be possible to confirm just about any theory including completely contradictory theories.

For instance, by grouping the data and selecting a suitable period of time out of 130 years shown above, if is possible to confirm the "hottest year on record" as well as "the coldest period on record" encompassing the "hottest year on record."