[taharvey]

Ok, I'm going to take this one.

First, are you claiming that weather scientists and forecasters are part of a vast global conspiracy? Seriously? These guys aren't even climate scientists, they are just building more accurate sensor networks and forecasting models. And if you look at the forecasting models running on todays supercomputers they are devastatingly accurate compared to 2 decades ago. So one can guess they are getting it more right, than wrong.

It think to biggest issue here is "normal" people don't understand math or stats.

I work with weather data sets in building simulation, which involves sensors and sensor fusion. First, there is no sensor that doesn't involve algorithms, statistics, or some sort of "data cleaning". Unless you are talking about a glass thermometer visually inspected... and if thats the only "data" you'll accept then we are talking serious luddite tendencies here.

All weather data needs cleaning. There are data drops than need interpolation, sensor stats checks to detect erroneous readings, multi-sensor fusion to make more accurate values. Get real.