By Andrew Bolt
Now the Stern report is found to have grabbed any alarmist report – especially out of Australia – that suited its agenda:
The Stern Review on the economics of climate change, which was commissioned by the (Australian Government) Treasury, was greeted with headlines worldwide when it was published in October 2006
It contained dire predictions about the impact of climate change in different parts of the world.
But it can be revealed that when the report was printed by Cambridge University Press in January 2007, some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified.
Among the claims that were removed in the later version of the report, which is now also available in its altered form online, were claims that North West Australia has been hit by stronger tropical typhoons in the past 30 years.
Another claim that southern regions in Australia have lost rainfall due to rising ocean temperatures and air currents pushing rain further south was also removed.
Claims that eucalyptus and savannah habitats in Australia would also become more common were also deleted.
The claims were highlighted in several Australian newspapers when the report was initially published, but the changes were never publicly announced.
Amazing. For an insight into Stern’s cherry-picking frame of mind at the time he wrote his report, check what his spokesman concedes now:
Statements were identified in the section on Australia for which the relevant scientific references could not be located.
Next for us to check is this: who first made these wild claims for “which the relevant scientific references could not be located”? How many of these unsubstantiated claims from the initial Stern report were then accepted by (Australian Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd’s guru, Professor Ross Garnaut, who relied so heavily on Stern for his own report?
I’ll keep you posted.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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