Predictions are easy when you're right

Back on July 29th, I tweeted:

MT @CFACT New #NASA data blow gaping hold in global #warming alarmism http://bit.ly/pxN99u #climate - this'll be refuted in 6 months, tops.


Well, it's been barely a month, and the fallout from this one is impressive. The author of the journal that published the flawed paper resigned; the paper has been refuted on several levels (with more to come); and the Spencer and Christy track record of providing results skeptics love has been documented extensively.

More on Climate Progress on this: The Damaging Results of Roy Spencer's Serially Incorrect Science


As might be expected, the skeptical sites are SHOCKED (#1), I tell you, SHOCKED (#2), that some reputable scientists would actually question these results in a peer-reviewed journal. They have even gone so far as to suggest that science is self-correcting; tell that to George Will who trotted out the error-ridden "scientists predicted global cooling in 1975" meme yesterday in op-ed. These are the same skeptics who repeatedly get down on Hansen when he publishes a correction. So what -- Spencer and Christy's results are sacrosanctly correct, while corrections from the mainstreamers are indicative of the breadth and width of the worldwide global warming conspiracy?

What takes the cake is Morano using a statistics prof to question the results of climate scientists. But Morano is an A-class idiot, anyway, so not much better is to be expected.

George Will's madcap excerpt:

"For Jon Huntsman: You, who preen about having cornered the market on good manners, recently tweeted, “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” Call you sarcastic. In the 1970s, would you have trusted scientists predicting calamity from global cooling? Are scientists a cohort without a sociology — uniquely homogenous and unanimous, without factions or interests and impervious to peer pressures or the agendas of funding agencies? Are the hundreds of scientists who are skeptical that human activities are increasing global temperatures not really scientists?"

Memo to George: there aren't hundreds of QUALIFIED scientists who are skeptical that human activities are increasing global temperatures. You've swallowed the skeptical line so deep that the barb on the hook is going to protrude out your rectum.