Panel of Scientists says UN Study Retreats, Misleads, and Misinforms
A panel of 50 scientists from 15 countries says the newest report from the United Nations on climate change is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and contains “at least 13 misleading or untrue statements and 11 further statements that are phrased in such a way that they mislead readers or misrepresent important aspects of the science.”
“Why should we believe what the IPCC predicts, given the model prediction/projection failures, plus manipulation of the data, plus hiding of data, plus false claims that those preparing IPCC reports are experts, plus Climategate in general, plus Glaciergate?” asked Laurence Gould, professor of physics at the University of Hartford, a chapter peer-reviewer for the NIPCC report.
- Global temperatures stopped rising 15 years ago despite rising levels of carbon dioxide, the invisible gas the IPCC claims is responsible for causing global warming.
- Temperatures were warmer in many parts of the world approximately 1,000 years ago, during the so-called Mediaeval Warm Period, due entirely to natural causes.
- Antarctic sea ice extent is increasing rather than shrinking.
- Climate computer models fail to reproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last 10-15 years.
Democrats– trying to handicap cheap, abundant, affordable energy for as long as I can remember.
So is trying to end affordable energy nothing more than a left-wing plot to keep most of the rest of the planet on the third-world plantation? I know controlling all the energy is a requirement for any proper centrally-planned toilet of a nation but as bad as it gets here, it would probably be better than where most of the world lives now, which means an endless supply of immigrants to groom as future victim-class/entitlement junky Democrat voters.
(I just threw that in to make the progressives pissy but now that I read it, it has legs.)
