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After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate
Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | January 25, 2010 | James Delingpole

Posted on 01/25/2010 10:35:55 AM PST by Schnucki

AGW theory is toast. So’s Dr Rajendra Pachauri. So’s the Stern Review. So’s the credibility of the IPCC. But if you think I’m cheered by this you’re very much mistaken. I’m trying to write a Climategate book but the way things are going by the time I’m finished there won’t be anything left to say: the battle will already have been won and the only people left who still believe in Man Made Global Warming will be the eco-loon equivalents of those wartime Japanese soldiers left abandoned and forgotten on remote Pacific atolls.

Here’s the latest development, courtesy of Dr Richard North – and it’s a cracker. It seems that, not content with having lied to us about shrinking glaciers, increasing hurricanes, and rising sea levels, the IPCC’s latest assessment report also told us a complete load of porkies about the danger posed by climate change to the Amazon rainforest.

This is to be found in Chapter 13 of the Working Group II report, the same part of the IPCC fourth assessment report in which the “Glaciergate” claims are made. There, is the startling claim that:

At first sight, the reference looks kosher enough but, following it through, one sees:

This, then appears to be another WWF report, carried out in conjunction with the IUCN – The International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The link given is no longer active, but the report is on the IUCN website here. Furthermore, the IUCN along with WWF is another advocacy group and the report is not peer-reviewed. According to IPCC rules, it should not have been used as a primary source.

It gets even better. The two expert authors of the WWF report so casually cited by the IPCC as part of its, ahem, “robust”

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: amazongate; climategate; glaciergate; globalwarming; pachaurigate; robust

1 posted on 01/25/2010 10:35:56 AM PST by Schnucki
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 01/25/2010 10:37:12 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Everything Albore and friends have touched turns out to be a fraud

We need to bring back wooden “stocks” in the public square and put all of these bozos out there for a loonnnnnggg time to be pelted with eggs and excrement and rotten fruit


3 posted on 01/25/2010 10:53:54 AM PST by Enchante (Mr. Brown Goes to Washington...... kick a@@, take names, and scorch all the bastards, please!)
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To: Schnucki
a complete load of porkies

Some of those Brit expressions are a hoot.

4 posted on 01/25/2010 3:23:13 PM PST by rfp1234
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To: Schnucki

BTTT


5 posted on 01/27/2010 1:20:00 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: steelyourfaith
More here Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures
6 posted on 02/03/2010 9:31:30 AM PST by Netizen
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To: Netizen
Thanx !
7 posted on 02/03/2010 12:13:43 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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