He seriously downplays potential risks of global warming, and he's built his career on this single argument. I know objective science, and he doesn't practice it (most people who write editorial books don't). To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on how global warming will play out due to a lack of data, and I think he may very well be correct. But I don't trust him either.

Anyway, do you have a citation? I didn't mean to start an argument about his character, but I'm skeptical of the claim about New York.