The unwillingness of the IPCC and the UN to use the normally expected qualifiers for the research that they are supposedly reporting and the their need to publicize alarmist scenarios call into question the role of the UN as a manager or driver of science.
They have oversold global warming and fewer and fewer people are listening. They have overplayed their hand as expected.
Exactly. They panicked. The grant $$$ weren't flowing in as they'd hoped because this time the sheeple were a little more skeptical than usual.
A week or so ago, the high temperatures in my neck of the woods were struggling to get above freezing. The same week back in 1951, highs here were in the mid-'60s, and no one was squawking about "global warming" or "climate change."
That may be anecdotal, but so was predicting a major 2006 hurricane season on the basis of a freak season in 2005.
It's just as H.L. Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."