Eric Steig, lead author of the recent study showing warming in Antarctica, has taken issue in the comments of the original thread with my assertion that one of his co-authors, Drew Shindell, said that the models are “consistent with” the data, writing:

By the way, I cannot help but point out that Roger was obviously poised to make this point of apparent contradiction. Yet he actually failed in this case to find a good example to fit his preconceptions. The quote from Drew Shindell doesn’t actually refer to the models, and whether they are consistent with the data, at all.

So that there is absolutely no ambiguity, here is yet another quote from Shindell, explaining the significance of their findings in a way that leaves no room for parsing:

They’re really consistent with the general warming that we get from greenhouse gases. So we now see that warming is taking place on all seven of the Earth’s continents in accord with what models predict as a response to greenhouse gases.

You can read more on the “consistent with” chronicles and why they matter in this op-ed I wrote past year.