No visit to the Skeptical Science website is complete without having one of their smug “escalator” graphics shoved down your throat. Not content with the temperature escalator, which paints anyone who questions their zealous devotion to “The Cause” as a simpleton, they have now come up with the sea ice escalator, along similar lines. So finally, ladies and gentlemen, we present the Australian Climate Madness version of [drum roll, please], The Escalator!!! http://australianclimatemadness.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/escalating_alarmism.gif