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So you don't think the climate is changing? Have you been outside lately?
Of course it has been. The real question is: is it now changing in a significantly different way than it has the last 200,000 years? Rational scientists with no agenda all agree not. Any minuscule difference is masked by the huge changes in climate on the macro time scale.

It would appear that 5 or 6 standard deviations from the mean have become commonplace. Or maybe the mean has changed and we are getting more extreme weather?
Which "mean"? Your personal one? The only one that counts? Nothing is meaningful outside your lifetime?
Fortunately, using mathematical jargon has little or no effect on informed educated adults. Anyone can call up the real science of climate over the last 100,000, 200,000 or 400,000 years and see for themselves what a joke the current hysteria is over the "change" of the last 50 or 100 years...

Anyone can call up the real science of climate over the last 100,000, 200,000 or 400,000 years and see for themselves what a joke the current hysteria is over the "change" of the last 50 or 100 years...

You are perhaps guilty of not evaluating climate change in context. Since the end of the last glacial period, the climate has been unusually stable. This covers a period of about 10,000 years. Human civilization has existed primarily in this period of stability, and present-day ecosystems were established during the same period. Anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing of climate change during this period has the potential of inducing a rapid climate change trend into a 10,000 year period that has had very little rapid change. This indicates an increased likelihood of instability and unpredictability. The ability to adapt to change is predicated on the ability to predict the course and magnitude of change. The more rapid and drastic the change, the less capability humans and the Earth's environment will have to adapt to it.

That's the context and the quandary.