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Checking George Will: The Perils of Time Travel

Uncover the true facts behind the global warming pause and its implications in climate science and variability.

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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 ...

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