UN Global Warming Panel Preparing to Scare Again
November 18, 2003
The UN’s global warming panel is cooking up another scary report for 2004.
Their 1996 report, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fraudulently claimed it saw “a discernible human influence” on the current climate. The IPCC is apparently determined to keep repeating that admitted lie.
The IPCC’s science experts approved the original 1996 version of the report with these statements secretly deleted before the report was printed:
1. “None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed [climate] changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases.”
2. “. . . no study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to [man-made] causes.”
3. “Any claims of positive detection and attribution of significant climate change are likely to remain controversial until uncertainties in the total natural variability of the climate system are reduced.”
4. “While none of these studies has specifically considered the attribution issue, they often draw some attribution conclusions, for which there is little justification.”
5. “When will an anthropogenic effect on climate be identified? It is not surprising that the best answer to this question is, ‘we do not know.’”
The following statement was secretly added to the printed version without the experts’ review:
“The body of statistical evidence in Chapter 8, when examined in the context of our physical understanding of the climate system, now points to a discernible human influence on the global climate.”
Dr. Ben Santer, the lead author for the IPCC’s Chapter 8, admits making the scientifically insupportable changes which reversed the chapter’s meaning. He did it at the behest of senior State Department officials. (Read: Vice President Al Gore and former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth, then Undersecretary of State.) Santer was a U.S. government employee with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The science journal Nature complained of political tampering with the report. Nevertheless, the IPCC refused to neither retract nor justify their claim of a “discernible human impact” on our climate.
The IPCC’s most recent published report (2001) wiped out a thousand years of the world’s known climate history. It prominently published a temperature “history” welded together by Dr. Michael Mann of the University of Virginia that claimed the Medieval Warming (800 to1300 AD) and the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850) never happened. Mann claimed that world temperatures had been virtually stable for the thousand years before 1900.
(Too bad Dr. Mann’s graph wasn’t published soon enough to save those poor Viking colonists who starved in the frigid 14th century, after Greenland turned back into frozen tundra.)
Then the IPCC’s 2001 report topped its own Mann fraud by claiming that world temperatures “might” rise as much as 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit in this century unless we implement the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gases. But the committee offered no science whatever supporting the 10.6 degree warming scenario. It was just a scary number for the front pages.
Dr. Mann’s temperature history (supposedly based on tree rings and ice cores) is now drawing fire from scientists whose studies of tree rings, ice cores, stalagmites, seabed sediments, etc. document that the Medieval warming and Little Ice Age were real and global.
Worse, two Canadian statistical experts who have studied Mann’s original data say he illegitimately snipped off at least two key data series that undercut his case for temperature stability, and invented “fill” data. Correcting Mann’s data unmasks a Medieval period warmer than today.
Physical evidence documents nine moderate global warmings and coolings in the past 12,000 years, all tied to variations in the sun’s activity. Virtually all the global warming we’ve had in the past century occurred prior to 1940, before much greenhouse gas could have “forced” temperatures upward. Satellites and high-altitude balloon thermometers tell us that most of the surface “warming” since 1940 is from official thermometers in urban heat islands surrounded by more and more concrete. All this indicates that the current warming is slow, erratic-and natural.
As the UN global warming committee ponders its 2004 report, we should remember what Dr. Melvyn Shapiro, a top U.S. climate research administrator, said in 1992. A space-agency press conference had just claimed a dangerous ozone hole was opening over the United States. “If there were no dollars attached to this game, you’d see it played on intellect and integrity,” said Dr. Shapiro. “When you say the ozone threat is a scam, you’re not only attacking people’s scientific integrity, you’re going after their pocketbook as well. It’s money, purely money.”
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