Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/13/2010 6:24:31 PM PST by ricks_place
One more alarming claim in the IPCC's 2007 report is disintegrating under closer examination, says Christopher Booker
Ever more question marks have been raised in recent weeks over the reputations of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri. But the latest example to emerge is arguably the most bizarre and scandalous of all. It centres on a very specific scare story which was included in the IPCC's 2007 report, although it was completely at odds with the scientific evidence – including that produced by the British expert in charge of the relevant section of the report. Even more tellingly, however, this particular claim has repeatedly been championed by Dr Pachauri himself.
Only last week Dr Pachauri was specifically denying that the appearance of this claim in two IPCC reports, including one of which he was the editor, was an error. Yet it has now come to light that the IPCC, ignoring the evidence of its own experts, deliberately published the claim for propaganda purposes.
One of the most widely quoted and most alarmist passages in the main 2007 report was a warning that, by 2020, global warming could reduce crop yields in some countries in Africa by 50 per cent. Dr Pachauri not only allowed this claim to be included in the short Synthesis Report, of which he was co-editor, but has publicly repeated it many times since.
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I hope I don't need a sarcasm tag on that.
Read article....brain freeze.....
Liar, Liar...Pants on fire! What a passel of anti-scientists and unethical losers. Beat them in public with their probably fraudulent dissertations.
You will never see this reporting in the US.
Something needs to happen with the IPCC. It is unthinkable to scare the hell out of the african people like that.
Remember how certain people in (starving)African countries were protesting genetically modified seed and foods?
I wonder if that was an effort to help drive down food production potential.
C-O-N-Spiracy!
Liberals don't care about others. They only care about power. Years ago they banned DDT based on phony science and since then millions of Africans have died of malaria. DDT is safe and the most effective insecticide for mosquitoes.
Many don't want to hear this but the science against asbestos and second hand smoke is just as phony. Both are just fodder for amoral personal injury lawyers.
Yep. Tired of mesothelioma, deep vein thrombosis, tardive disconesia, and a plethora of other commercials.
I smoke. I know its not good. But if I’m going to kill myself, do I care if I kill you?
Back to the subject. Disinformation is so rampant lately and people believe this crap. And if we question false information, we are looked at as weird.
Correct! I also smoke and anytime I say the above I am looked at like it is an excuse for my smoking.
More weekend revelations.
Christopher Booker has been shouting the truth from the rooftops for the longest time. Another good source of news about the BS called climate science can be found at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/ This blog has been hot on this story for a very long time.
Wow!
The peers seem to have failed to review the IPCC report...
Thanks for that link...don’t think I have looked at that blog before....
Climate change: the final phase
The Umbrella Blog.....
Richard North is the site admin and he co-blogs at eureferendum. He has been like a pit bull on the issue of BS climate science and his the head of the IPCC in his cross hairs.
Climate change: the final phase
Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures
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