untermensche
Contributor
Both Togo and untermenshe seem to be more interested in telling us how Ridley and Lukewarmers are insufferably old school, as well as cavorting with "coal interests", rather than actually demonstrating that he/we are wrong. As I am someone who would rather be correct than modish, that sort of non-argument does not impress....
This is from your posting.
Question: How long will the fantasy that climate models are reliable indicators of the earth’s climate evolution persist in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
Answer: Probably for as long as there is a crusade against fossil fuels.
It starts with both a lie and a reason to distrust it's conclusions.
The lie that this is motivated by some crusade against oil.
And the claim that the models are unreliable means their conclusions based on models are unreliable.
But where is the evidence that the surface temperature has been dropping since about 1992?

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110113/