"I hope that in the future we'll be able to verify this result with real data through a long-term ice thickness measurement campaign,"
Stooopid? Yes. "Real data" will take, what, a thousand years?
And don't forget, hundereds of BILLIONS of dollars.
These people aren't totally stupid. They have a better chance of using a disaster scenario to get multiple government grants to "study" the problem, giving not only themselves but their antecessors jobs for life. It' s a whole new industry, based upon the welfare donations of the accused nations, which naturally fork over all the bucks they demand just to prove our innocence.
Is China, the world's largest polluter, subect to the rules of Kyoto? No, it is not.