You and I and a lot of DENIERS have been mistrusting the models used for longterm prediction for quite some time, and the easy retort is always, "Yeh, so where's your Ph.D in Climatology?  Huh?  HUH??"

As if you need one.  Common sense and intuition serve us uneducated sods well enough sometimes.  Better than an ivory-tower Gov't-grant teatsucker more than some of the time.

Well, now we have an example, a good solid historically established example where the models go wrong.  And in order to attack that fact they'd have to unravel some of the "proxies" they use to prove that things have never been this "bad" and/or have never gotten this "bad" this quickly.  That unravelling won't stop once started so they don't dare.

By itself it's not much.  Neither is the Alan Carlin thing—suppressed-climate-change-report—but together, and with all the other things brewing and threatening to come together in a Perfect Storm of scientific refutation (including the failure of sea ice to disappear, the thriving polar bears, the dampened hurricane activity, the growing outrage among real scientists, the record low temps in both hemispheres, and a slight but steady ten-year stasis or decline in global avg temp in spite of CO2 ppms barrelling along) I think we'll have a complete reversal of opinion inside of three years.  Which I predicted in five years, without a computer model, two years ago.

Actually I sort of used P. T. Barnum.  He's never failed.

So it's now just a matter of time.  The World right now is a great big pan of Jiffy Pop and as the refutations of the current elite views heat up you can hear it... pop... pop... pop... as one by one, at a steadily increasing rate, peoples' heads are popping out of... ...out of, umm, "the sand".  Let's be polite and call it what it isn't.  Really who cares... it's the fact of the popping out that's important.

This is a long read but worth it-- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/07/16/actor-paul-
rodriguez-turns-gop-after-farmers-hurt-save-endangered-fis --it's impassioned, factual, and funny in spots.

There is no zealot like a converted zealot, and the folks who look as if they're "winning" right now are going to be in a WORLD of hurt as they realise how true that is.

Pop... pop-pop-pop... pop... pop...

—Ron Copis