Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider | Full Comment | National Post

More evidence of the fallacy that has been called “man made global warming”.  Turns out there was no “consensus” – color me shocked.

 

The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider | Full Comment | National Post

Lawrence Solomon June 13, 2010 – 8:50 am

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider.  The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.

“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”

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