From this morning’s paper, a local “environmental science instructor” had this to say:

It’s time to put the fear of God into people.

This is because glaciers are melting and hurricanes are intensifying.

If I’d known He would get so upset, I’d have listened more carefully in Sunday School.

I’m sure today’s Earth Day festivities will add more morsels for this thread.

Mark

* Suzy apparently isn’t skiing Colorado Slopes anymore… otherwise she’d know differently.

David Henderson, an economist at the Westminster Business School in London and former head of the Economics and Statistics Department at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, said governments had given the IPCC a monopoly on climate advice.
“The very idea of creating a single would-be authoritative fount of wisdom is itself dubious,” he said, urging countries to seek a more balanced approach than the IPCC and to stop pursuing programs to urgently reduce carbon emissions.
“In this area of policy it’s high time for governments to think again,” he said.
Mahi Sideridou, climate policy director at environmental group Greenpeace, rejected criticism of the IPCC.
“Saying that the IPCC is not balanced is probably the most ridiculous claim that anybody can make,” she said, stressing the group’s reports were based on scientific consensus.

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL1829984220070418

Therefore, I suggest adding to Steve’s list the following element of “consensus science”:

The most ridiculous claim that anybody can make is that the IPCC is not balanced.

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/gjohnson/pacific_abyss_v3.pdf

Since neither tropical troposphere mean temperature / heat content nor that of the oceans above the thermocline have demonstrated what was forecast by “the models” then the heat must be hiding somewhere. A-ha! The Abyss! Which leads us to …. using towed arrays of sensors “thought to be accurate to 0.005 deg C” in a half dozen places, twice in 20 years, we have “crunched the numbers” and found “significantly nonzero values” of abyssal “warming.” I mean, being able to say we dredged up some data, “processed” it, and “measured” a hundredth or two degrees “average abyssal warming” is proof positive that we’ve found the missing heat, and the models are therefore saved from ill repute.

An interesting corollary is that when man-made aerosols lower global temperatures for a few decades they do so in a manner that makes glaciers continue to recede.