Like evidence from cores below the seafloor in the North Atlantic, these segments suggest a transition from intense glaciations to a wide-scale glacial retreat may have taken less than 100 years."It should catch people's attention now since the change appears to occur in about a human lifespan," Krissek said.
This guy just signed his professional suicide note. What he is suggesting here is that rapidly retreating glaciers have occurred repeatedly throughout our geological history, and therefore are not indicative of any human influence on the atmosphere.
Grants will be pulled, he’ll be ostracized by his peers, his work will be trashed as junk science, and a grad student will accuse him of sexual harassment.
He’ll be bartending to pay his mounting legal bills by the (“warmer than normal due to US industry”) spring.