During  December 2021 anyone who was watching the anomalous cold, snow, ice and blizzards in the Northern Hemisphere would have thought on balance that the Earth was plunging into an ice age.  The mainstream media instead (fixated on the twin delusions that the climate can change the weather and that we humans can change the climate) portrayed the standard UN IPCC line that human carbon emissions are leading to catastrophic warming – regardless of any evidence from the weather data.