Impending Doom is at Hand! Care to Make a Wager on It?

It seems that the prospects of roasting alive or freezing to death in the coming decades due to climate change is not enough excitement for some. In order to up the ante on the situation RealClimate.org has offered a wager to their archnemesis, Nature magazine. Quite simply put, the RealClimate.org team is betting that we start cooking in the next few decades while the Nature team, in accordance with their recent article, has been asked to place their chips firmly behind the prospect of a several decade long freeze before things start heating up again. The stakes of the wager and the benefits of such scientific racketeering are laid out in this DotEarth blogpost from the NYTimes. I'm considering offering a wager of my own on whether the Statue of Liberty will be locked in a glacier before LA is ravaged by numerous and massive cyclones, a la The Day After Tomorrow.