I'm a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss - The Register

I'm a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss - The Register:

[Theon said] "My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data [emphasis added, etc.] to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it.

"They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done."

So he's a skeptic about man-made global climate change. I wonder what he thinks about climate change trends in general. E.g. do the data indicate long-term warming, regardless of cause?

Aside: I quit reading treehugger.com a few years ago, after the reporter in one of their so-called "news" videos mocked a claim that some climate change was due to the sun. "That's right: the sun. [snort]" As if fluctuations in our largest energy source could not affect our climate...

More from The Register:

"Hansen has called for energy industry executives to be jailed for dissenting from the man-made warming hypothesis."

I didn't know that. The Guardian confirms it:

"James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."