Arguably the biggest complaints skeptics have about climate change advocates are that 1) they frequently make predictions that are wrong, 2) they engage in extremely specious reasoning when called to account for why those predictions were wrong, and 3) they carry on making silly predictions as if their credibility had not been damaged.

You don’t have to be a climate change skeptic to be annoyed by this constant moving of the goal posts. Well, Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com flags this op-ed in today’s New York Times as possibly “the dumbest thing ever written on climate.” The argument being put forth by the op-ed is, get this, global warming is destroying our ability to predict the future: