Fred,
OK fair enough. Appreciate your candor. Which again is why I took issue with what struck me as your bland assertion of equivalency. Note that I’m taking your word for the moment that the Wall Streeters were being intentionally deceptive. I barely passed statistics for dummies (social science major) about 150 years ago, so I’m not qualified to judge. Still Fred, I don’t see how you can disagree that on just about every front, the models have fared quite poorly relative to real world happenings. That’s why you guys are always going on and on about dying polar bears, and disappearing glaciers, and weather. Any kind of weather.
And speaking of equivalency, I don’t see how you can blame its detractors from assigning just as much importance to the HS as its proponents. After all, this was heralded by your side as all the evidence we needed that we were all going to burn. From a PR standpoint at the very least, it was pretty devastating. In the longer run of course, it ended up doing great damage to you warmists, though I’m sure you’d argue unfairly.