One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.