1. What the alarmist/IPPC ‘hot spot’ model prediction is all about and,

2. Why their failure at hot spot prediction in itself is FAR more damning to them fundamentally in terms of invalidating their claim of AGW more so than say, recent global temperature cooling trends in general or declining ocean heat or increasing ice extent, etc., (ie = huge WAD of empirical evidence running counter to the alarmist fraud)

As he says,

The indisputable fact about these atmospheric temperature predictions is that if the pattern doesn’t happen, the model is wrong.

And “The Model” is of course … ALL THEY GOT!

On July 17th, 2009 at 2:08 am, tbear44 said:

Ah, but you’re missing the point. Somewhere there is a thinning ice sheet and a baby seal with a sun tan, so all your observations about average temps going down must be irrelavent.

/sarc off

On July 15th, 2009 at 11:54 pm, lgm said:
Now: none (actually one) of the naysayers is actually a qualified scientist. The rest lack the training or the experience to have an expert opinion.

AL GORE: Well, the ruling was in my favour.

Typical Democrat talking points. Both demonstrably untrue but they spew it out like good little lemmings hoping that others will believe it since they do were told to by their masters. Say it enough and it becomes true. Click your heels Toto. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

In fact, I think he can only be saved if we do something. Then, since global warming does not exist anyway, he can point to his policies as having stopped it and saved us. If we do nothing and warming dissapates, he will go down as a fools fool.

In other words, he doesn’t need global warming to be real. He needs a solution implemented to save his big foolish backside. He is all in.

“In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record,” says oceanographer Gerald Dickens, study co-author and professor of Earth Science at Rice University in Houston. “There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models…..

The conclusion, Dickens said, is that something other than carbon dioxide caused much of this ancient warming. “Some feedback loop or other processes that aren’t accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for current best estimates of 21st century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM.”