Dear WaPo, read my lips: you all are journalists because you couldn’t even get a D in freshman physics.
Please leave science to grownups (which apparently excludes the vast majority of those government grant seeking “climate researchers”.
'Way back in my grad school days, the typical reference to "those government grant seeking" researchers (of all types, not just the ecofreaks) was simply to call them Grant Whores.
Walk through their office door, plop down a fat wad of bills, tell 'em what the "study" should conclude, leave for a two-martini lunch and they'd have a carefully printed and bound bale of BS ready to take on your return flight. Then, they would rush out to "publish" this drivel (usually in a journal-of-something-or-other that was operated by some ex-GH's who had decided to diversify) or maybe even get high enough in the Con to have WaPo print the mess as has occurred here.
They can call it whatever they want, but it's not science, it's not scholarly and it's not even particularly amusing any more. (The lack of amusement is mine, mostly because my degrees just happen to have come from study at the University of Colorado, Boulder.)
AGW (or any alias you happen to like) is a confidence game.
Only difference between these con artists and the one downtown with the "genuine" Rolex watch for sale is that the phoney Rolex might cost you a hundred bucks and these AGW hustlers want trillions.
...plus total control over every person on the planet, if they can push the con that far.
JMHO, it's time to stop laughing at these characters and begin prosecuting them as the frauds they are.
...or maybe just cut to the chase and organize a few baths in tar & feathers, followed by a ride on a rail outta here.