[Gideon7]

The thing that bothers me is when the AGW hysteria finally blows over and gets revealed as the largest scientific fraud in history, it's going to permanently damage people's trust in science (or rather, in scientists).

After this, nobody will listen to them if there is real potential world-wide disaster looming - for example, a new Maunder sunspot minimum leading to another Little Ace Age.

[Paul R.]

Heh - that’s a pretty goofy article too: If you read down it quotes “Solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center” as indicating a rebound in solar activity in 2013-2014. Oops.

Then, there’s some nit in the current(?) issue of National Geographic (IIRC) predicting that by 2030 (IIRC) the world could be “carbon neutral” and (the real zinger) “the climate will stabilize.” Good God - someone put a ring in these idiots’ noses and lead them to, at a minimum, the Wikipedia article on Ice Ages...

“Normal is Chicago under a mile of ice.” (unknown)