A recent article about the Winter Olympics in China discussed how the planet’s warming temperatures are supposedly contributing to a “disappearance” of winter. The authors used convoluted data and some apparent falsehoods to support their argument. It’s the latest hysteria from these ecological doomsayers in their misguided attempts to validate predictions that are not necessarily science-based.

“Climate change is here,” the piece quotes Travis Ganong, a 33-year-old Olympic skier. “It’s happening. We’re living in it right now. It’s not something that’s going to be in the distant future. It’s here. And you see it with the fires in California, floods in Europe, higher snow levels, shorter winters, longer summers, droughts. It runs the whole gamut. Everywhere in the world is having some effect from it. And there’s not really any turning back.”