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Revelations about how the United Nations and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have manipulated scientific data to support their contention that man-made carbon emissions are altering the world’s climate are now flying out like bees from a wet hive — fast and furious.
First, of course, there were the thousands of emails and computer files leaked last November that show many of the world’s leading climate scientists manipulating their own climate data to overstate the case for global warming; conspiring to hide their “tricks” even from government access to information requests and then bullying scientific journals not to publish the work of scientists whose work cast doubts on the theory.
Then came evidence last week that the IPCC had passed off pure speculation on the rate of glacier melt as ironclad scientific fact. In its most recent “Assessment Report” — AR4 in 2007 — the UN agency garnered much media attention for its claim that there was a 90% likelihood that all 15,000 Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. Except the report this assertion was based on was eight years old at the time, had never been peer-reviewed or published, and turned out to have been authored by a man now working at an environmental advocacy group run by the head of the IPCC.
Source: network.nationalpost.com