I've read this article and the one by Patrick Michaels on this new study. Not being someone who can critically judge the data and methods, they *sound* damaging. Fu's strong response in the Space Daily (UPI) article, and Trenberth's second (which is even stronger), may come back to bite them if it turns out that Spencer and Christy's criticism is valid. I expect that they'll do what they need to do now, which is to send a response letter to Nature on the Fu study. Fu will be forced to respond to that letter. The letter and the response will be extremely interesting. Somebody's going to have crow for dinner when this is resolved.
Somebody's going to have crow for dinner when this is resolved.
To some degree that will be true among the participants.
I doubt very much that the news media will let the world know much about it generally, if the debate fails to support the side of the UN/IPCC storyline.