Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/04/2010 8:24:29 AM PST by opentalk
A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half of the Netherlands is currently below sea level.
In fact, just twenty percent of the country consists of polders that are pumped dry, and which are at risk of flooding if global warming causes rising sea levels. Dutch Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer has ordered a thorough investigation into the quality of the climate reports which she uses to base her policies on.
Climate-sceptic MPs were quick to react. Conservative MP Helma Neppérus and Richard de Mos from the right-wing Freedom Party want the minister to explain to parliament how these figures were used to decide on national climate policy. "This may invalidate all claims that the last decades were the hottest ever," Mr De Mos said.
The incorrect figures which date back to 2007 were revealed on Wednesday by weekly Vrij Nederland. The Dutch Living Environment Planning Agency told reporters that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) added two figures supplied by the agency: the area of the Netherlands which is below sea-level and the area which is susceptible to flooding. In fact, these areas overlap, so the figures should not have been combined to produce the 55 percent quoted by the IPCC.
The discovery comes just a week after a prediction about glaciers in the Himalayas proved wrong. Rather than disappearing by 2035, as IPCC reports claim, the mountain ice would last until 2350, according to the original research underlying the report.
....There used to be 6,000 measuring posts, they say, but now there are just 1,500. A number of weather stations in colder areas like Siberia and the Arctic were dismantled, while the remaining stations were in more moderate zones. As a consequence, data from colder areas were no longer used in the calculations.
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Is there any rational reasoning human alive that still believes in manmade/caused global warming? Anyone……crickets. All Gore where are you?
Good article at site. Thanks for posting. When will our mainstream news even start to cover this?
The tax money flow to this hoax needs must be huge. I am sure we do not know the total amount. Millions to research this including the people hiding the date, mandates on emissions,NASA ...
(- needs) fixed it, site keeps freezing
It’s in the billions when you add in the money diverted to the Cap and Trade scheme.
BILLIONS robbed from average people all over the world. BILLIONS.
Never
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This looks like a politically correct greenie site. Note the other articles linked at the side, and the mistake about the Himalayan glacier “research.”
But this UN report made such an elementary mistake about the Netherlands that they couldn’t very well cover it up once the political opposition questioned it.
Flemish painter Peter van Bruegel (the elder) painted scenes that documented the bitter cold winters of the mid 1500’s where Dutch canals froze. This “little ice age” was purposely deleted from the climate data used to support the man made global warning scam.
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