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obvious_throw
Not to sound like a AGW denier, but is this really how science is supposed to be done?

  1. Posit hypothesis A, with predictions X
  2. Gather data to falsify A for twenty years
  3. Data contradicts predictions X
  4. ???
  5. Invent hypothesis B to avoid falsification of A.
anon1385
Could you show which 'predictions' you think have been contradicted by which data exactly?
[dead] ende
I think he's referring to the observed absence of increasing temperature as contradiction to the prediction that temperatures will keep increasing.