Over at the Huffington Post, this headline caught my eye: "Climate Change Will Ruin Hawaii, New Study Suggests." The article is based on a report by the University of Hawaii's Sea Grant program.  Here is a statement from the University of Hawaii report: Air temperature has exhibited a consistent increasing trend in Hawai'i over the last 100 years, the rate of which has quadrupled in the last 40 years to over 0.3 F (0.17 C) per decade. I'm not sure how they define "consistent" in climate science, but in the real world it means "always acting or behaving in the same way ... continuing to happen or develop in the same way ... free from variation or contradiction." Four NOAA National Weather Service climate sub-regions exist for Hawaii: Hilo, Honolulu, Kahului, and Lihue.  Not a single one of these regions has anything remotely close to an increasing trend in air temperatures over the past three decades.  Lihue has a...(Read Full Post)