AGW alarmism on the wane?

Steven Goddard at 'Watts Up With That' reports an apparent turnaround by two of Britain's biggest purveyors of global warming alarmism:

Today’s Guardian has a lead story unlike anything we have seen before.
‘Apocalyptic climate predictions’ mislead the public, say experts’

Experts at Britain’s top climate research centre have launched a blistering attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. The Met Office Hadley Centre, one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world, says recent apocalyptic predictions” about Arctic ice melt and soaring emperatures are as bad as claims that global warming does not exist.

Nobody has been pushing the global warming story harder than the Met Office and The Guardian. Whom could they be referring to in this passage “scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming?”

Read the whole thing.