A brave climate forecast

I don't know any of the relevant details, but this looks to be a mighty brave forecast. I hope it fails miserably, not due to hard feelings or anything, but because I would prefer not to live through the consequences!

Scientists predict surge in global warming after 2009 -- ABC News

A study forecasts that global warming will set in with a vengeance after 2009, with at least half of the five following years expected to be hotter than 1998, which was the warmest year on record.