By Andrew Bolt
Christopher Booker discovers yet another scandal in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on which (Australian Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd bases his global warming policies. And this one directly implicates the IPCC chairman:
One of the most widely quoted and most alarmist passages in the (IPCC’s) main 2007 report was a warning that, by 2020, global warming could reduce crop yields in some countries in Africa by 50 per cent…
The origin of this claim was a report written for a Canadian advocacy group by Ali Agoumi, a Moroccan academic who draws part of his current income from advising on how to make applications for “carbon credits”. As his primary sources he cited reports for three North African governments. But none of these remotely supported what he wrote. The nearest any got to providing evidence for his claim was one for the Moroccan government, which said that in serious drought years, cereal yields might be reduced by 50 per cent. The report for the Algerian government, on the other hand, predicted that, on current projections, “agricultural production will more than double by 2020”. Yet it was Agoumi’s claim that climate change could cut yields by 50 per cent that was headlined in the IPCC’s Working Group II report in 2007.
What made this even odder, however, was that the group’s co-chairman was a British agricultural expert, Dr Martin Parry, whose consultancy group, Martin Parry Associates, had been paid £75,000 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for two reports which had come to totally different conclusions. Specifically designed to inform the IPCC’s 2007 report, these predicted that by 2020 any changes were likely to be insignificant. The worst case they could come up with was that by 2080 climate change might decrease crop yields by “up to 30 per cent”…
Yet when it came to the impact on Africa, all this peer-reviewed work – including further expert reports by Britain’s Dr Mike Hulme and Dutch and German teams – was ignored in favour of a prediction from one Moroccan activist at odds with his own cited sources.
However, the story then got worse when Dr Pachauri himself came to edit and co-author the IPCC’s Synthesis Report (for which the IPCC paid his Delhi-based Teri institute…). Not only did Pachauri’s version again give prominence to Agoumi’s 50 per cent figure, but he himself has repeated the claim on numerous occasions since…
A gigantic fraud is unravelling – and less than three years after the IPCC shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for frightening billions of people rigid.
And what does Rudd keep telling us about the now deeply suspect IPCC and its even more deeply compromised chairman?
The first thing I’d say is the IPCC – International Panel on Climate Change – scientists has 4000 (sic) essentially humourless scientists in white coats who go around and measure things…
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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