Getting Clear On Climatology

I have to deliver a lecture next week in Minnesota on Catholic social thought on the environment ( a topic dear to me). Checking the weather reports for that area, I have noticed a high unseasonal warmth. But I know, of course, that climate is not weather. We can have overall global warming or cooling yet find, during a warming or cooling period, unseasonal opposite effects in some parts of the globe. Clearly, getting clear on climatology takes some careful parsing of data.

Link (here) to the full blog post by Fr. John Coleman, S.J. at America Magazine

Climate Gate (here)
More on Climate Gate (here) , (here) and (here)

Polar Bear population data (here) and (here)