This is going to come as a terrible shock to Al Gore and his band of Gorebots, but that IPCC report – you know, the one that foretold all the horrible consequences of global warming – was mostly hot air.
The Australian, one of the largest newspapers in the land down under, reports on chicanery within the IPCC:
THE UN body that advises governments on climate change failed to make clear how its landmark report on the impact of global warming often presented a worst-case scenario, an investigation has concluded.
A summary report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on regional impacts focused on the negative consequences of climate change and failed to make clear that there would also be some benefits of rising temperatures.
The report adopted a “one-sided” approach that risked being interpreted as an “alarmist view”.
For example, the IPCC had stated that 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef was projected to suffer regular bleaching by 2020 but had failed to make clear that this was the worst projected outcome and the impact might be far smaller.
The wording of a statement on between 3000 and 5000 more heat-related deaths a year in Australian cities had suggested that all of the projected increase would be the result of climate change, whereas most of it would be caused by the rising population and an increase in the number of elderly people.
The report, which underpinned the Copenhagen summit last December, wrongly suggested that climate change was the main reason communities faced severe water shortages and neglected to make clear that population growth was a much bigger factor.
Have at it, global warming lunatics. Remind us again how your cause is just and how you’re doing it for the children.
H/T: Tim Blair
