Perhaps hopes and prayers actually affect the climate, but NOAA doesn't include that - just the science.
ahh, but scientists' interpretations within the objective data is necessarily subjective to some extent. This next quote is vaguely related:
The learned scientists explained with bland assurance that such vagaries [in barometric readings] were to be expected, and were accounted for quite simply by the presence of a ‘column of cold air.’ The unlearned oafs on the contrary thought it must be something to do with ‘hot air’, and plenty of it. HW Tilman,
The Ascent of Nanda Devi *Tilman was notoriously part of the anti-science crowd. The understanding of atmospheric conditions and capability of weather forecasting has improved exponentially since then.
