Having spent his career writing and reporting about climate change, Mr. McKibben said the planet is heating up faster than scientists had predicted.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20100928/NEWS/100929581/1116

When you have made a career out of reporting on climate change, sometimes you just have to make stuff up. The planet is actually heating up much slower than scientists predicted.

John Christy’s overlay of actual (blue) vs. Hansen’s predicted temperatures (red)

McKibben : “That’s ….  why an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan broke off near Greenland into the ocean

The iceberg had nothing to do with climate change. Professor Muenchow
(who made the “Manhattan” comparison famous) actually said :

“Even a big piece like this over 50 years is not that significant.  It’s just the normal rate,” he said. Muenchow warns people not to jump to conclusions. “An event like this, this specific event, all flags go immediately up, ‘Oh, let’s explain this by global warming.’ I cannot support that,” he said.