echo: ” It definitely builds an outsider’s confidence in your ability to report scientific findings in an unbiased way.”

Okay, I give up. Please explain how the bloody anal fuck it is possible to report science without bias? The WHOLE FUCKING POINT about science is that it is biased! If it is not biased, it isn’t science. Sheeeish.

Lord Palmerston: [climate bet web page]

From the web page, not from Lord Palmerston, first paragraph: “It was 2007, at the height of the alarm over global warming. We could see the theory about carbon dioxide had no empirical evidence to back it, only a sensitivity calculation and computer models based on theory. Yet the hype was huge.”

Gosh, let me see…..

#1, the alarm is much greater now than it was in year 2007. The effects of human-caused warming of Earth are also much worse— an astounding amount of ice mass lost, and The Cold Blob “under” Greenland as the thermal halon “conveyor belt” slowed.

#2: the “theory about carbon dioxide” is called “physics” and more specifically “chemistry,” and my year 1910 both classical physics and quantum physics explained how (and therefore why) increasing atmospheric CO2 has, is, and will increase global average temperature.

#3: observation shows the “theory” (known laws of physics regarding atmospheric CO2) is 100% correct.

#4: the hype, thankfully, is much, much larger.

Also from the web page: “It is now widely acknowledged that there is a pause or hiatus in global warming….”

I know of no scientists working in the related science venues, anywhere, ever, who have agreed there was or is a “pause” in Earth’s warming.

I also find it amusing that the wager applies to how much Earth will warm due to human activities, and not the fact that it is warming.

http://sciencespeak.com/climate-bet.html

Not sure if RickA has a history here, but his statement that the cooling phase may have already started seems like it could be a reference to, though the temperature is still increasing, the “cooling phase” is reducing the rate of increase. I guess I’m just not seeing here how he fits into the denialist camp if he agrees that CC is occurring and thinks it will increase at a greater in the future after temporary pressures downward are gone.

Craig Thomas: “Obviously, if Mann says the Hiatus is real, that means all of global warming is a complete fraud and a scam.”

Now that Dr Mann has confessed, I wonder if Rafael Eduardo Cruz will invite him to testify in Congress.