Climate is not weather, and weather is not climate.
I never said there was a sneaky conspiracy. There was definitely a name change, and my organization at the time (one of the leading data producers for what is happening) changed all of our naming at the same time this occured, in both the media, and other places.
Our models are wrong. Deeply flawed. We know this. Just like our HCN siting has been deeply wrong too (the data that is the premise for it occuring). We know that in certain cases ASOS data was incorrectly used in the climate record, and also, in the weather record. That is completely inappropriate use of a data set that was never intended for generalized observations.
The process of fixing these things, and making changes to improve them, and iterate upon them - we call that science.
This is why the legacy HCN now has been updated by the release of the reference network.