"I am not one of the sceptics ..."

If you didn't think that there was something seriously out of whack in the Climate Science community, take a look at this:

"People will say this is global warming disappearing," he told more than 1500 of the world's top climate scientists gathering in Geneva at the UN's World Climate Conference.

"I am not one of the sceptics," insisted Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany. "However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it."

So who is this Mojib Latif - some paid shill of ExxonMobilShellBP? Err, no. He's one of the authors of the Intergovernment Pannel for Climate Change (IPCC), the High Priests of Global Warming. Seems that the climate fluctuates, or something:

Latif predicted that in the next few years a natural cooling trend would dominate over warming caused by humans. The cooling would be down to cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Lots of other stuff about variability in the link, so RTWT. The fact that the High Priests are admitting that we understand things less than some have claimed is welcome, but is not my point. This is:

I am not one of the skeptics. However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it.

Just how dysfunctional does a "science" debate have to get before you get one of the leading researchers to say this?

Hey, Latif, shut up - you're hurting the team. The Science is settled. Settled, I say!

Oops, gotta go. It's those darn deniers, back. Hey! Get the heck off my lawn!