MTV was new, and so (still) was President Reagan. The year was 1981. I graduated from high school, and that was the last time the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole recorded a temperature as cold as the one on Oct 15th, 2025, minus 61.3 degrees…centigrade. According to the AI search assistant, “The coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States was -80 degrees Fahrenheit at Prospect Creek Camp in Alaska on January 23, 1971.”
According to multiple “sources” around the internet, “The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was a bone-chilling -89.2°C (-128.5°F), documented at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983.”
Then there’s Dome Argus in Antarctica, “thought to be the coldest naturally occurring place on Earth, with temperatures believed to reach −90 to −98 °C. Today the low was a balmy -75C.
Where was I? Recorded. At Amundsen–Scott Station.
It is springtime at the South Pole.
None of the lavishly funded climate models predicted it, nor can they explain it, but being wrong more often than not —almost always, that is —means they get the same consideration as any other government program. The issue isn’t the mission or bias in its funding. The answer is to reward failure with a bigger budget —the formula for public schools.
If we had more money, we could find another way to look at it, which is the excuse Marxists give for the failure of Communism, despite numerous examples with different people in different places, to create anything but a two-tiered system of everything. Justice. Economics. Force and power. One side has it all, the other is under their boot, so they don’t suggest sharing. This time…we’ll get it right.
There are few examples of any government getting anything right, which is why the government should not fund climate science (or much else). Just like markets, it corrupts the natural signals, skewing the outputs, inevitably creating a few winners and a lot of losers, and leaving a mess that more taxpayer funding can only make worse.
We’ve wasted trillions in defense of climate models that can’t predict much of anything, including next week’s weather. There are wars that cost less with fewer casualties.
