[zeestephen]

My first impression of the “scam” Comment was the same as yours.

However, Ben Ficklin knows about the Heartland Institute, which is a very Conservative organization that challenges the science behind man-made global warming.

So, I'm thinking Ben just used clumsy wording in his Comment.

[Ben Ficklin]

Your correct that Heartland is conservative political organization, but you are wrong that Heartland challenges the science behind global warming.

There are no scientists there, they are PR men and political scientists.

Heartland's funding is from fossil fuel interests. Heartland used to get some of their funding from insurance companies but the insurance companies all abandoned Heartland when they started that campaign of calling all the global warming people unibombers.

There is another way to determine that the NIPCC report is a scam. Click on the report and scroll to the end where they list all the authors.

As always, you will see the names Willie Soon and Fred Singer. But if you internet search all the names, you will see that none of them are qualified.

The NIPCC report is a rebuttal report and there is no point in reading the NIPCC until you have read the IPCC report.