Feels Like the First Time, Again [Chris Horner]

Planet Gore on National Review Online

In today’s example (congrats to a Canadian paper for showing balance), John Christy cites the models’ well-known shortcomings as making it impossible to state such a claim with credibility, let alone certainty. In short, they are just reverse engineering, yet again, to reach a desired conclusion: because we can’t explain it we know the human did it. This is what Dick Lindzen calls the alarmists’ tired “lassitude” argument. (An approach that the report's co-author admits on the BBC here. Pat Michael's follow-up assessment explains why the author, I have learned, was very reluctant to appear once she discovered that Pat would be allowed to opine on her work — a trait shared by many alarmists, as I have previously observed).

Here’s a contest: Who can find the most media claims that scientists have proven man-made global warming “for the first time”? Start with coverage of every IPCC report and proceed from there.