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Climate change and the world's poor : Comments
By Andrew Hewett, published 3/7/2007Climate change is arguably the gravest threat ever faced by humanity.
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I simply drew your attention to the fact that a graph produced by the IPCC shows no warming since 1998, and various periods of warming and cooling over the last 100 years, with an aggregate warming in that period of one half of one degree.
The graph is in the Summary and is easily checked, as is the misleading statement in the Summary, quoted in my post. No appeal will alter that, or the fact that the evidence given by the expert greenie against Xstrata, was found by the Judge to be exaggerated, which is a euphemism for false.
Your rationalisation of the disregard of scientific method to accommodate politicians is unconvincing. If it is not science, as the Summary clearly is not, then it should not be misrepresented by the UN as science. Call it what it is: a composition to satisfy anti western politicians.
Thanks for the link to IPCC. I cannot believe that this is their scientific report, directing the reader back to the Summary as the overview. I would have thought they would avoid a flawed document like their Summary, but perhaps it has been amended.
I look forward to some amusing reading.
All of the alarmist fuss, unless it is based on a warming of .5 of a degree in 100 years, depends on predictions. The leading predictor is the IPCC, and I do not think I am the first to point out that it has not been right yet.
You say: “There are plenty of safeguards (not least the scientists themselves) to ensure that the SPM is not slanted in any one preferred direction”
I do not know what these alleged “safeguards” are, but I have given you plenty of evidence that they have failed, particularly in the case of the scientists. Did you even look at what Chris Landsea said before making a statement like that. Here is the link:
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/landsea.html