George Will runs into the dual brick walls of data, science

Thanks to Nate Silver, the best person on the planet, George Will is again left looking like a troglodyte.

Friendo George tries to assert that since the 70's there has been a global cooling trend and that 70's scientists (no doubt suffering from polyester poisoning and exposure to too much boogie) were predicting an ice age. Will's assertion is: if they were wrong then, why should we believe them now.

To quote H.I. McDonough: "then, the roof caved in".

Nate Silver of 538.com uses DATA! and SCIENCE! and FACTS!, and lots of spiffy, spiffy charts to deconstruct, rebut, challenge, obliterate (yeeeesss! obliterate) Will's nonsensical argument.

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