Denier Cricket

As kids, on long car journeys, my friends and I would amuse ourselves with a game called Car Cricket. The rules were pretty simple: watch the traffic heading in the other direction, every vehicle that passed was a ball. If it was a green car you got a single. If it was blue you got two runs. A yellow car scored you three and a truck of any colour was a boundary (4 runs). If a bus passed you got a 6. But if a white car passed you, you were out, and it was your friend's turn to bat

Nowadays, on long climate change threads, I amuse myself with a similar sport: denier cricket.

The rules remain simple. Each comment from a denier/sceptic is a ball. The following run schedule applies (note that some comments will blend multiple arguments, in this instance simply take the highest scoring argument):

No Runs
Many leading scientists question climate change / It's all a conspiracy

1 Run
In the 1970s scientists predicted global cooling
Computer Models can't be trusted
C02 isn't the most important Greenhouse Gas
Human emissions of C02 aren't significant compared to natural emissions

2 Runs
The 'Hockey Stick' is broken
The Medieval Warm Period
The Earth's climate has always changed

3 Runs
We can easily adapt
We're better spending the money on other things
We can't trust climate models

4 Runs
It's the Urban Heat Island Effect
Satellites show cooling
The Sun did it!/Sun spots!/Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Rays!

6 Runs
The Earth's climate stopped warming in 1998
CO2 lags temperatures in ice cores

No Ball (you can't go out on this comment/ you get 1 additional run added to what you would have scored otherwise)
Any comment that violates Gore's Law.

Wide (you can't go out on this comment/ you get 1 additional run added to what you would have scored otherwise)
Any comment with some form of Tu Quoque argument or ad hominem attack on climate scientists.

Out! (in the longer test match version of the game)
Any comment that mentions Christopher Monckton by name or which links to an article by him.

Out! (in the shorter one day event)
Any comment that mentions Monckton, Fred Singer, Bob Carter, Jennifer Marohasy or Climate Audit.

This morning, at the PCG, I've already knocked up 18 runs including a 6 off the very first ball...