Xkcd has a modest proposal:
Unfortunately finding a climate denier to put their money where their mouth is is not so easy. If the world isn't getting warmer, the chance that 2012 will be the warmest year in the instrumental record should be less than 1%. All the people predicting global cooling -- or claiming that global cooling has already started, or that there's been no warming since 2000 -- ought to be willing to give ten to one or twenty to one odds against a new record. No such luck:
Unfortunately finding a climate denier to put their money where their mouth is is not so easy. If the world isn't getting warmer, the chance that 2012 will be the warmest year in the instrumental record should be less than 1%. All the people predicting global cooling -- or claiming that global cooling has already started, or that there's been no warming since 2000 -- ought to be willing to give ten to one or twenty to one odds against a new record. No such luck:
I'd take the under on that one, but in the next 5 years a new record will be set.
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