If the water vapor doesn't increase, then the AGW position is incorrect.
Per the paper, your quote, your
bold:
If "The Science" was known, that couldn't have happened.
If "The Science" was correct, that couldn't have happened.
If "The Models" were correct, that couldn't have happened.
I am not missing anything. I understand this. I understand this paper. I understand what they are saying.
I understand the total implications. You didn't. Maybe you do now. Here is the AGW prediction, per the science, the models, per skeptical science, per Steve and Gordon, vs the reality. If the water vapor didn't increase, then 'The Science', the Theory, is wrong.
It IS that simple.
Sorry man. The Science was just a SWAG. A Scientific Wild Assed Guess by Hansen in the 1980s.
With no 3X forcing/feedback, it isn't that alarming. And there isn't one.
Even Mann gets it. It is that simple.