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I'm skeptical of various parts of AGW (e.g., Climategate) but I believe the reaction to the field has become a hate death spiral. (Hence, considering it in its separate parts rather than a single phenomenon.)
Accordingly, I find some of your reasons unconvincing.
Fully general counterargument.
IPCC Scientific Assessment
Regarding the confirmation of the second and third assessments (that is, they failed to be falsified, which implies that they were in fact falsifiable):
"Comparing climate projections to observations up to 2011"
You don't find any falsifiable predictions if you never look for them.
There seem to be problems with that paper.
I believe you'll find the peach line (the non-adjusted data) in figure one still tracks with the projections. As far as I can tell your link is only concerned with the adjustments, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
EDIT: At most, I believe we're reduced to debating the meaningfulness of the word "closely".
Sorry, I don't have time to dig through the mound of literature. Could you please just state what the falsifiable prediction is? Please be as precise as possible.