The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.Keep that in mind as Obama tells you tomorrow night that we need to have taxes on carbon emissions to stop global warming.
“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”
Monday, June 14, 2010
How Many Scientists Agree with the IPCC on Global Warming?
Not as many as we were led to believe:
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Too bad this information will never come under the gaze of my friend who asked me last weekend if I was a "denier"? (Science is a religion now, and we, heretics.)
Ironically, she used to be a journalist! But I'm pretty confident she knows zero about this!
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