Article Tags: Andrew Bolt
Now the heat is going on professional alarmist Lord Stern, too. Stern not only relied on a false IPCC claim but quietly slashed his scary predictions of hurricane damage without publicly acknowleding he’d got the (still exaggerated) figure wrong by a factor of 10.
Roger Pielke Jr explains the fiddling.
Also: From WUWT: The purge continues (I have changed the location of chart in text)
The top figure shows Table 5.2 as it was originally published in the Stern Review (from a web archive in PDF), and I have circled in red the order-of-magnitude error in hurricane damage that I document in my paper (the values should instead by 10 times less).
Now, have a look at the other figure which shows Table 5.2 from the Stern Review Report as it now appears on the UK government archive (PDF), look carefully at the numbers circled in red:
Source: blogs.news.com.au