Sorry for the next-day response, went to bed shortly after posting that. Long story short, this paper received a lot of press attention when it was published t

Sorry for the next-day response, went to bed shortly after posting that. Long story short, this paper received a lot of press attention when it was published to the ACPD last summer for discussion: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/whiplash-warning-when-climate-science-is-publicized-before-peer-review-and-publication/?_r=0 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/whiplash-warnin... Which led to a fair number of climate scientists upset about what they saw as the press reporting on preliminary results. It's linked in that article but the key point is that Hansen has spent the last ~10 years calling out what he sees as a reticent attitude among climate scientists towards (what he feels is justified) alarmism: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/2/2/024002/fulltext/ http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/2/2/024002/fulltext/