Say it loud, he’s unsettled and proud. Hide-the-decliner Phil Jones is embracing his inner decline:

Climategate U-turn as Scientist at Centre of Row Admits: There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995

That would be 1995 as in a decade and a half ago? Gee, you wouldn’t get that impression from reading the papers.

Here’s another first. Dr. Jones is the first IPCC honcho to concede the possibility that the present allegedly roasting planet may not be unprecedented:

He said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.

“Far from settled”? But I thought it had all been peer-reviewed up the wazoo . . .