George Rebane
Well, another six years has passed since 2007 when the IPCC issued its last load of hooey piled high and dry. In Stockholm they are now putting the finishing edits on this year’s hernia pack that updates the latest “peer reviewed science” on the earth’s climate. And on Friday they will release the whole thing – Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) – including its 30-page ‘Summary for Policy Makers’ that will be the only part read by anyone.
In it they will not be able to account for the temperature record of the past 15 years, nor a lot of other climate related measurables like the record amounts of ice returning to the Arctic inspite of the constant increase in atmospheric CO2. But it is expected that these government paid scientists and environmentalist ideologues will up their subjective certainty of manmade climate change to 95% from 90%.
Not known yet is the level of lying that will be included in this edition. Two years ago Dr Rajendra Pachauri, bandleader of the IPCC, “told the Guardian newspaper that an independent review of the IPCC “found our work solid and robust.” This is not so. The review, conducted in 2010 by a committee of the InterAcademy Council identified “significant shortcomings in each major step of [the] IPCC’s assessment process.” It said “significant improvements” were necessary—and criticized the IPCC for claiming to have “high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence.” (reported in the 25sep13 WSJ, more here)
The world has been convinced that the UN’s IPCC is comprised of an unbiased group of qualified scientists studying climate change. That stretches truth beyond its elastic limit. “The U.N. has charged the IPCC with weighing the evidence on climate change in an objective manner. The problem is that numerous IPCC personnel have ties to environmental groups, many of which raise funds by hyping the alleged dangers of climate change. This relationship raises a legitimate question about their objectivity.”
The lamestream will, of course, stand up and deliver their usual knowledge-free salute to whatever is claimed in the forthcoming report. And our central planners in Washington and Sacramento will use that copy to sustain and grow the stack of laws and regulations that already limit our liberties and cripple our country. Contact your members in Congress; but then again …
[27sep13 update] The IPCC Working Group did publish its Summary for Policy Makers with the expected conclusions as the preamble to the full version of their Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) that will issue later.
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