Unfortunately I can’t give you a detailed answer, I am heading out of town for a few days.
In the meantime I invite you to ponder the fact that the paper in question hasn’t garnered more attention.
It was published a year ago and has been available in manuscript form for much longer. The lengthy discussion thread (apparently over 1000 messages) happened 2 years ago. So the paper wasn’t really born into obscurity. Yet your link was the first time I heard of it. Now why would thousands of lobbyists fight it out in Copenhagen without one of them bringing up the ‘proven fact’ that the greenhouse effect doesn’t exist.
Given the heated debate about AGW around the globe this should be a news story that can hold its own against Micheal Jackson and Tiger Woods.
Sure, Brian, there is an ‘evil conspiracy’ going on. But no one bringing up the topic? That’s a conspiracy that even humbles the mafia, perpetrated to a large degree by a bunch of climatologists.
BTW, you still didn’t respond to my accusation that you blatantly misrepresented the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory position on AGW.
And there is something else you need to do: If you are still convinced that the greenhouse gas effect does not exist you should remove the ‘MAXIMIZE CH4’ part from your signature.