Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect

Layzej writes: Back in 2005, solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev made a $10,000 bet that global temperatures, driven primarily by changes in the Sun's activity, would fall over the next decade. The bet would compare the then record hot years between 1998 to 2003 with that between between 2012 and 2017. With temperatures falling from their peak during the 1998 super El-Nino, and solar output continuing to fall, this seemed like a sure bet. The results are now in and all datasets show that climate modeler James Annan is the clear winner. At the time of the wager, Annan had supposed that the reputation of the scientists involved would be enough to ensure payment once the bet was settled. Unfortunately, as was the case with Alfred Russel Wallace's famous 1870 bet against flat-Earthers, the losing parties have refused to pay up.
'More precisely, Bashkirtsev is refusing to pay,' writes the climate modeler on his blog, 'and Mashnich is refusing to even reply to email.

'With impressive chutzpah, Bashkirtsev proposed we should arrange a follow-up bet which he would promise to honour.'

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