Climate change: this is not science – it’s mumbo jumbo

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 28 Sep 2013 | Nigel Lawson

[neverdem]

The IPCC’s call to phase out fossil fuels is economic nonsense and 'morally outrageous’ for the developing world

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which published on Friday the first instalment of its latest report, is a deeply discredited organisation. Presenting itself as the voice of science on this important issue, it is a politically motivated pressure group that brings the good name of science into disrepute.

Its previous report, in 2007, was so grotesquely flawed that the leading scientific body in the United States, the InterAcademy Council, decided that an investigation was warranted. The IAC duly reported in 2010, and concluded that there were “significant shortcomings in each major step of [the] IPCC’s assessment process”, and that “significant improvements” were needed. It also chastised the IPCC for claiming to have “high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence”.

Since then, little seems to have changed, and the latest report is flawed like its predecessor.

Perhaps this is not so surprising. A detailed examination of the 2007 report found that two thirds of its chapters included among its authors people with links to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and there were many others with links to other 'green’ activist groups, such as Greenpeace.

In passing, it is worth observing that what these so-called green groups, and far too many of the commentators who follow them, wrongly describe as 'pollution’ is, in fact, the ultimate in green: namely, carbon dioxide – a colourless and odourless gas, which promotes plant life and vegetation of all kinds; indeed, they could not survive without it. It is an established scientific fact that, over the past 20 years, the earth has become greener, largely thanks to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Be that as it may, as long ago as 2009, the IPCC...

[Lancey Howard]

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

"Ooo-ooo-ooo (shooting hand in the air), I know! ...By forcing an endless stream of trillions of dollars in energy taxes on working, taxpaying, traditional American families so that the money may be used to grow global socialism and be redistributed by the UN to third world pisspots. Am I right, am I right?"

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[publius911]

Just last week Gore suggested those who speak out against the scam be found guilty of political crimes!

AGAIN??!!

Have his minders noticed that he's escaped again?

[abclily]

You are right! Go to the head of the class!