Another day, another IPCC lie exposed

This time its the claimed link between global warming and natural disasters.

...faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough...

...The Sunday Times has since found that the scientific paper on which the IPCC based its claim had not been peer reviewed, nor published, at the time the climate body issued its report.

When the paper was eventually published, in 2008, it had a new caveat. It said: "We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses."

Despite this change the IPCC did not issue a clarification ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit last month. It has also emerged that at least two scientific reviewers who checked drafts of the IPCC report urged greater caution in proposing a link between climate change and disaster impacts — but were ignored.

Its just a hazy concept at the moment...kinda ephemeral...might even just be indigestion and hangover...but it just feels like maybe, just possibly, an outside chance, 1:1,000,000 shot, that there's a, just a faint fuzzy shadow on the wall thing really, that suggests a pattern of deception going on here. I'm with Auric Goldfinger on this -- three times is usually enemy action.

posted by Purp at 09:17 PM

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