*(How does someone that is being muzzled get into the national press 4 days a week)

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345926.ece

He is gaga over the Greenland ice sheet, which is losing small amounts of ice today, but he is convinced that the “tipping point” is coming. Therefore, since it serves his purpose, the climate models can be thrown out the window:

Today’s forecasts of sea-level rise use climate models of the ice sheets that say they can only disintegrate over a thousand years or more. But we can now see that the models are almost worthless. They treat the ice sheets like a single block of ice that will slowly melt. But what is happening is much more dynamic.

Are we frustrated that climate models only produce a sea level rise of a few centimeters in the next century? Well, make up your own estimate then:

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today – which is what we expect later this century – sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don’t act soon. None of the current climate and ice models predict this. But I prefer the evidence from the Earth’s history and my own eyes. I think sea-level rise is going to be the big issue soon, more even than warming itself.

This seems to be a new phenomenon. Hansen is rejecting the models from the other side, the alarmist side. What will the IPCC do with this? Is Hansen now a “sceptic”?

[The Pitt report] says Schatten’s behind-the-scenes “lobbying” of Science editors helped assure the publication of a 2004 paper (12 March 2004, p. 1669) on the development of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, a charge Science Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy denies, saying, “If anything, hearing from Jerry was a distraction.”

This seems to implicitly acknowledge that Schatten lobbied substantially, albeit claiming to negligible effect.