McDaniel said he has received from Exxon more
than 12,000 pages of documents related to the
pipeline and is investigating if the company was negligent in this
disaster:
However, given that the CAGW position doesn't rest on specific numbers, but is instead an unorganized collection of anecdotal evidence, coupled with heavily - tweaked computer models, unfounded assumptions about positive feedbacks, and a healthy imagination about possible future
disasters, a lower warming number for the 20th century will simply be brushed over with claims about aerosols being stronger
than previously thought, more warming still waiting in the «
pipeline» or similar ad hoc «explanations» that keep the overall story alive.