During the winter of 2009-2010, we experience several crippling snow storms in the American Northeast. The Internets replied like a alcoholic asked to guard a case of scotch. The Moonie Washington Times displayed its rightwing contempt for "liberal" science: "Record snowfall illustrates the obvious: The global warming fraud is without equal in modern science." 

Efforts to convince deniers that extreme weather is consistent with anthropogenic climate change are best reserved for Sisyphus. When naysayers bashed climate change theory on a local forum, I was able to squash their contempt without a single point of data.

The contemptuous right understands one thing: money. Last January with two feet of snow on the ground I posed this challenge to every climate change denier on the forum: I will cover this wager for any amount for anyone who wants to take it: 2010 will be one of the top ten warmest years on record.