While I was blogging over the past few weeks about fact-checking George Will's dismissal of global warming (collected here), I got comments. A lot of them. A fair number of commenters claimed George Will was right, and presented evidence that they claimed supported him. Some tried to back their claims with news that came out after Will's column was published. For example, a few days after his column came out, there were reports that the a satellite that measure ice cover had some trouble and was fixed. But George Will could not jump forward in time, check out the satellites, and then leap back to write his column. There's no way that it could have any bearing on fact-checking his piece. What's more, even if Will did know about them, he'd still be wrong, as I explained here. Today brought more time-travel. Trey writes:
Just FYI to the AGW crown [sic] and to support George Will and Lou Dobbs (CNN) there appears to be a shift to global cooling now. MSNBC and Discovery.com are reporting no warming since 2001 and that we’re looking at no warming or even cooling for the next several decades.http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/global-warming-pause-02.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29469287/
My response is much the same as my response to the satellite story. On February 15, George Will wrote the following about current "global cooling":
