[boris]

If they cannot show an increase in temperature, then they will invent an analog for it and "demonstrate" that the analog is going the way they predict--since the climate clearly is not.

Yeah--that's the ticket! It's...it's tropopause height, not temperature, that is a measure of "global warming!"

Where have I heard that before?

If the &$!@&$# planet froze over, they'd find a correlation between the length of porcupine quills and "global warming."

That's the ticket!

--Boris

[cogitator]

Boris,

The troposphere is warming. Recent data analyses of the satellite data (including
an analysis by the group that previously published analyses
showing no warming in the troposphere), now show a clear warming signal. The proper way to frame the skeptical argument now is to say that there is not enough warming in the troposphere, rather than saying there isn't any warming in the troposphere.