Someone cast Wolven Winter on New Orleans!

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Tichy

When in doubt, yell louder and call names. The thing is, you sound like an angry ideologue, whereas Max, who I disagree with, actually sounds like he's trying to engage the issue.

Yeah, well. Maybe we won't always disagree. Edi's response has given me some new directions to take my homework. (I realized that I need to be as critical of my own skepticism as I wish AGW advocates would be of their theories, which probably means asking my so-called "hard questions" on realclimate.org forums instead of just wishing that AGW advocates would magically address them on their own--maybe the questions *are* well-known and well-answered.) I may be wrong, I frequently am, and when I am I like to think I can change my mind.

-Max

P.S. Obviously what I'll really be hoping for is that someone on realclimate.org will say, "Oh yeah, that's called XYZZY in the literature. A good starting place is FredBob's 2001 paper on it." That's infinitely better than someone's ad hoc response on a forum, but at the same time it's unfair to expect AGW advocates outside the field itself to be able to point out papers like that.