The Great Climbdown: Hysterical climate activist Bryan Walsh: "it's not quite true when environmental advocates say that the "science is settled," as Al Gore has"; he suggests that Joe Romm is one of "the most hysterical climate activists"

New Study Suggests Climate Change May Be (Slightly) Less Severe Than Feared - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Newsflash: predicting the future is really hard, and trying to predict how something as complicated as the climate system will change in the future—without even being able to be sure of how inputs into that system like carbon emissions will change—is really, really hard. It could turn out that the climate system is much more sensitive to carbon buildup than we've thought—as some scientists have suggested—and that a doubling of the carbon in the atmosphere from pre-industrial times could lead to a temperature increase of as much as 10 C over the next century, which would mean an altogether different planet. Or it's possible that the climate system may be more resistant to carbon than we think, and warming could proceed relatively slowly. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for its part, has estimated that temperatures would rise by about 3 C after a doubling of carbon concentrations.

What this means is that it's not quite true when environmental advocates say that the "science is settled," as Al Gore has. The basics absolutely—but beyond that, there's a whole lot of science left to do, as a new paper shows.

...But given how often we're reporting dire climate news on this blog, I'm thankful on Thanksgiving for a study that indicates we may have a little more time to save ourselves. And climate skeptics take note: this study, which could dismay the most hysterical climate activists [Walsh links to Romm here], was published in one of the most prestigious journals in the world, not hidden away.