Weepy Bill McKibben: The weather is allegedly "pinching much harder and faster than even the most dire predictions"

[I wonder if he says this when he's not in Vermont?]:  McKibben says Vermont needs to lead on climate change - Brattleboro Reformer

MONTPELIER -- With Vermont still working to recover from Tropical Storm Irene’s torrential rains and flooding, environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben went before a panel of state lawmakers on Tuesday to say the storm was at least partly the product of climate change and a likely harbinger of a troubled future.

McKibben, a Ripton resident and scholar in residence at Middlebury College, said Irene was one of many signs that the climate is deteriorating more rapidly than predicted when he wrote "The End of Nature," the first major book on climate change, in 1989.

"We didn’t know how fast or how hard this would pinch," McKibben said of what was predicted for climate change 23 years ago. "The story of the past 20 years and even the last three or four years is that it is pinching much harder and faster than even the most dire predictions" would have indicated.