He said worst case scenario #2 was more likely and concluded it with "Federal education policy has a bounded impact; global warming remains a grave problem."  WTF? 

Did you read it Johann? What does the hollocaust have to do with anything? What are all of these mostly crazy conclusions based on? Where's the best case scenario? 

This is not an article worth reading unless you want to see rhetorical manipulation in action.  This is clearly a low low blow by someone with an agenda but not sense to think people have sense.