Climate change 'scientistsâ are just another pressure group
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 05 Oct 2013 | Christopher Booker
Posted on 10/6/2013 11:05:36 PM by neverdem
Last weekend, something very odd happened. On Friday we were told that in Stockholm the UNâs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) had published a report saying that it was now âextremely likelyâ that the world faces disastrous man-made climate change. But this was merely a âsummaryâ for politicians and the media of a scientific report that was not published until three days later.
We then learnt that this âSummary for Policymakersâ had been argued over for days and sleepless nights by hundreds of politicians, officials and scientists, but, weirdly, that the scientific report it supposedly summarised had subsequently been amended to bring it into line with the summary. One obvious change from previous drafts was the marked downplaying of any reference to how, in recent years, global temperatures have so notably failed to rise as the IPCCâs computer models predicted.
This was an uncanny replay of the first scandal to hit the IPCC back in 1996,...
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Scientists who had approved the report protested that there was nothing in their text to justify this. But, to their amazement, they discovered that their agreed version had been amended to include this very phrase, citing as its authority two papers not yet published by Ben Santer, an American scientist who had also played a key part in drafting the summary.
All this, and the revelation that Santer had deleted 15 passages casting doubt on man-made warming from the agreed text, famously prompted Prof Frederick Seitz, a revered former president of the US National Academy of Sciences, to protest that never in 60 years as a scientist had he âwitnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review processâ. Last weekend Dr Santer was again playing a part in the events that led to a virtual repeat of what happened in 1995...
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