These are dark days for the global warming crowd. So dark, in fact, that one might assume they’ve already succeeded in turning all the the electricity and moved into a cave. Which, figuratively, they have.
Christopher Booker exposes the false claims of yet another IPCC source:
Last week, after six months of evasions, obfuscation, denials and retractions, a story which has preoccupied this column on and off since January came to a startling conclusion. It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in the 2007 report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a claim on which tens of billions of dollars could hang – was not based on peer-reviewed science, as repeatedly claimed, but originated solely from anonymous propaganda published on the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group …
Fire in the Amazon, it turns out, was not a “report” or a scientific paper but, as the WWF now acknowledges, a “text published by IPAM… on its website in 1999”. It was merely a brief, anonymous and unreferenced note on the exposure of the forest to fire risks, posted in February 1999 and taken down four years later. Here, at last, is the sole source for the statement later published by the IPCC.
Let’s review: The rain forests are ok. The glaciers aren’t melting. The polar bears aren’t dying. The sea levels aren’t rising.
In fact, the only thing that’s rising is public skepticism.
H/T: Tim Blair
