Did AGW skeptics/deniers set ourselves up for a fall via global cooling posts in January?

Question

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Answer 1

What I find most interesting is that computer models that can not get the local weather for tomorrow right claim to know what is going to happen with the climate over the next hundred years. What is even more interesting these same computer models using stored data could not even report what the weather for the previous week or month had been. And they wonder why we deny them. I can dig out from many sources well checked and verified charts and graphs that disprove every single allegation or assertion ever made in favor of AGW.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamourous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L.Mencken

Answer 2

I didn't answer that question back in January....but I left a comment after the fact.

...and no, we didn't.  We were right, of course.

Answer 3

Yes.  Confusing weather and climate is a completely basic and amateurish error which virtually every denier made in January.

Answer 4

I think pretending to know the future is a recipe for failure whether you are a AGW skeptic or AGW alarmist.  I personally think you have just about a 50 /50 shot at being right whatever you guess but it has been generally warming since the "Little Ice Age," so I think the odds are slightly in the alarmist's favor that it might warm a little more.

Answer 5

No, you set yourselves up for a fall by ignoring evidence.