Posted on 12/07/2009 1:13:55 PM PST by Schnucki
The "Climategate" row took centre stage on the opening day of the Copenhagen climate summit today as the world's leading oil exporter intervened to question the scientific consensus on man-made global warming.
As 15,000 delegates from 192 nations began what was billed as the "last, best chance" to avert a catastrophic rise in sea and air temperatures, Saudi Arabia's chief climate negotiator, Mohammed al-Sabban, spoke from the floor to say that e-mails hacked from a UK research centre had shaken trust in the work of scientists.
He was not the first to mention the Climategate scandal. In his opening address to the conference, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the hackers had been trying to undermine the work of his organisation.
But he said that the science as presented in the IPCC's last assessment report two years ago was clear and incontrovertible and covered water shortages and rising sea levels.
"Given the wide-ranging nature of change that is likely to be taken in hand, some naturally find it inconvenient to accept its inevitability," Dr Pachauri said.
"The recent incident of stealing the e-mails of scientists at the University of East Anglia shows that some would go to the extent of carrying out illegal acts, perhaps in an attempt to discredit the IPCC.
"But the panel has a record of transparent and objective assessment stretching over 21 years performed by tens of thousands of dedicated scientists from all corners of the globe."
The Copenhagen summit, which will eventually involve at least 110 world leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, is designed to produce an outline agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and go far beyond it in scope.
The political deal reached here could bring deep cuts in CO2 emissions from
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God looks down at all the “earthers” and laughs.
Yes, Why do the heathen (nations) rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Good and fitting scripture for today!
Also, God told Noah in the 8th chapter of Genesis:
” While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
They’re just askin’ for it...calling God a liar and making themselves bigger than He. It is astonishing!
It’s a sad day when we must rely upon Saudi Arabia and Russia to tell the truth and our media conspires with the Commies.
So why were Jones, Mann, et al conspiring to delete any e-mails associated with that assessment report?
How significant is Obama’s attendance on the last day of Copenhagen?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/07/copenhagen-obama-climate-change
Amen to the Psalms.
May the Lord bless you MrB.
"Global Warming" is dead.
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