Anthropogenic Global Warming and Clarke's First Law

Let's flip this around a bit -- the boots-on-the-ground truth points to man-made global warming being a non-issue. The models used by the AGW-istas are deeply flawed (do not take the variation of the sun into account, improper modeling of the feedback effect of temperature and atmospheric water vapor, etc...) True, the Earth has been gradually warming for the last two or three hundred years (all those pesky campfires back in the 1700's) but the idea that we have any significant impact on this is pure hubris on our part. In fact, 1998 was the warmest year on recent record, 1999 and 2000 were almost as warm and temperatures have been on a steady decline ever since. The Sun, coming out of solar cycle 23 has been very late in starting Cycle 24 and its output is much lower than normal. So, my thesis is that there is no appreciable Anthropogenic Global Warming to speak of. I am not interested in a possible tenth of a degree rise over twenty years. I am interested in the numbers published by the IPCC and the various warmist scientists. They have been flogging this dead horse for the last twenty years and those numbers are not penciling out. The antithesis will therefore be that humans, through their action are causing a significant and measurable warming of this planet. Stick with me. Arthur C. Clarke's first law is this:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I see in the news that Dr. James Hanson has been arrested:

NASA�s James Hansen arrested yet again
Excerpt from Bloomberg:

James Hansen, head of NASA�s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested outside the White House as he joined protesters in urging President Barack Obama to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)�s $7 billion pipeline.

Before he was taken into custody today, Hansen took a megaphone and implored Obama to act �for the sake of your children and grandchildren.�

�If Obama chooses the dirty needle it will confirm that the president was just green-washing all along,� Hansen, 70, who took a vacation day from his job at the New York based institute to participate in the protest, said in an e-mailed statement.

Let's see: Distinguished = check I may disagree with him but he has been a professional scientist for 44 years. Elderly = check Seventy may be the new forty but it is still up there. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong = check Hanson is saying that the thesis of no appreciable Anthropogenic Global Warming is impossible. Hanson is very probably wrong.