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>>8425033
October 18th, 2016
New Santer et al. Paper on Satellites vs. Models: Even Cherry Picking Ends with Model Failure

Dr. John Christy's congressional testimonies on 8 Dec 2015 and 2 Feb 2016 in which he stated that climate models over-forecast climate warming by a factor of 2.5 to 3, apparently struck a nerve in Climate Consensus land.
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Overall, it looks to me like Santer et al. twist themselves into a pretzel by cherry picking data, using a new hot satellite dataset that appears to be undocumented, ignores independent (radiosonde) evidence (since it does not support their desired conclusion), and still arrives at a substantial 1.7x average bias in the climate models warming rates. (www.drroyspencer.com)

If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck but it needs batteries, you probably have the wrong abstraction.