The Daily Beast recounts James Hansen's latest prognostication of doom, under the headline
Climate seer James Hansen issues his direst forecast yet
The immediate thing that struck me was that this must be some pretty far-out stuff, because Hansen has issued some truly blood-curdling predictions in the past. So what is it this time?
James Hansen’s new study explodes conventional goals of climate diplomacy and warns of 10 feet of sea level rise before 2100.
No, I'm afraid that just doesn't cut the mustard. As Anthony Watts has related, back in 1998 Hansen was talking about that level of sea-level rise by 2040. I suppose we should acknowledge that the great climatologist has reined back his soothsaying from "outright bonkers" to "slight foaming at the mouth", but we can say for sure that is is not his direst forecast yet.
Far from it.