That was a Nino. My point was with cold ENSO a Ninoesque pattern like we had last month was not going to be able to continue. I was right. That seems to get lost in the noise. I also picked Jan to be the coldest of the three winter months in my forecast quite some time ago. It's on the record. I may even be right about being the coldest January in a long time. People have different methods of coming up with a forecasts. There are many valid paths.

The past 10,000 years have indeed been anomalously stable…a lot of anthropologists think it’s no coincidence that’s the time period when our modern civilization has thrived. Back past that though, earth’s climate has not been stable in the long run. We’ve seen anything from a snowball earth, to a global hothouse tropical climate era.

Tried it with grok AI, it did okay. I have a beard, my facial structure does not look like that, and I do not own a single red jacket. Your turn!

They say the ideal temperature for life on Earth is another 5-7 degrees warmer than it is now. Antartica is a very rich continent too, if it ever thaws out.

No... but we managed a complete flip in 2018-19 during a moderate Nino much like what is happening this year.