Trolling solely to cause arguments or a sounding board to see if the public is willing to bite again after ClimateGate?

Nicely put.

Its only 35 years ago every "Expert" and "Scientist" (sorry to kill your God here Atheists) was telling us we were heading for a new Ice Age.
Don't take my word for it, look it up.

The World was getting rapidly colder, and it was the End of the PLANET! OMGZ!

I think all thats happened is that we've used new technologies to become more aware of the fluctuations of a non-stable system and have a mini panic attack at every new discovery.

Monkeys still throwing Rocks at the Moon.

Not arrogance, simple understanding of Computer Analysis (at the time pretty much solidly material based - which is why, even now, most tactics for playing against computers involve deep positional games with not immediately obvious long term goals) at the time, and what a Chess engine was and wasn't capable of. I'm no Grandmaster, but many are, and many agreed with Garry. I wish I was a good enough chess player to be able to dismiss the worlds greatest (probably all-time) simply as "arrogant".