The burden is now on those who claim it is a temporary condition, or that it is not of any significance.

Any boat can leak, the question is, how long before the pumps can't keep up with it.

OTOH. I am really impressed by the "conspiracy of climatologists" concept. There is a boldness and audacity to it that one can't help but admire. It ranks right up there with the flat and hollow earth theories, the moon landing hoax, or the "9/11 was an inside job masterminded by GWB" insights. Lets face it, evil plots to take away our freedom and money hatched by the Illuminati, Bilderbergs, Commies and the UN are old hat, but a unconscious, self-organizing conspiracy arising from the academic bureaucracy and with reinforcing ties to governments (domestic and foreign) is quite unprecedented. After all, its a wonder those pointy-headed kollege perfessors can even park their bicycles straight when they get to the campus.

You see, the standard of excellence of a conspiracy theory is not how well it explains the facts, but how inevitably and intricately it dovetails with other, pre-existing conspiracy theories. The climatologist's cabal is the perfect avatar of the integrated, holistic, interconnected fabric of villainy which permeates and rules the cosmos. The idea that it might be unconscious and unplanned, and arose spontaneously from the substrate, the matrix of reality itself, is all the more wonderful.