Sunday, February 7, 2010

Understatement of the Year


From the U.K.'s Times Online:


Top British scientist says UN panel (on Climate Change) is losing credibility.
...ya think?!


Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

The African claims could be even more embarrassing for the IPCC because they appear not only in its report on climate change impacts but, unlike the glaciers claim, are also repeated in its Synthesis Report.

This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers.

It's not just the U.N. Panel on Climate Change that is losing (or has lost) credibility; it's anybody and everybody who continue to desperately cling to this bogus man-created myth of global warming, er, climate change for the sole purpose of redistribution of our wealth to third and fourth world thuggish dictatorships.

The list of climate change hoaxes are becoming too numerous to catalog in any one post. To the extent the hoaxers have any credibility at all shows how gullible and uninformed some of the masses are. However, the masses are rapidly catching on to the leftist head fake, with each new expose' which seem to be surfacing almost daily.

Can you say "house of cards?"
(Editorial cartoon from Wizbangblog.com)

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