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<\/a>By Andrew Bolt<\/strong><\/p>\nChristopher Booker discovers yet another scandal <\/a>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:<\/p>\n One of the most widely quoted and most alarmist passages in the (IPCC\u2019s) main 2007 report was a warning that, by 2020, global warming could reduce crop yields in some countries in Africa by 50 per cent\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n 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 \u201ccarbon credits\u201d. 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, \u201cagricultural production will more than double by 2020\u201d. Yet it was Agoumi\u2019s claim that climate change could cut yields by 50 per cent that was headlined in the IPCC\u2019s Working Group II report in 2007. <\/em><\/p>\n What made this even odder, however, was that the group\u2019s co-chairman was a British agricultural expert, Dr Martin Parry, whose consultancy group, Martin Parry Associates, had been paid \u00a375,000 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\u2019s 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 \u201cup to 30 per cent”\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Yet when it came to the impact on Africa, all this peer-reviewed work \u2013 including further expert reports by Britain\u2019s Dr Mike Hulme and Dutch and German teams \u2013 was ignored in favour of a prediction from one Moroccan activist at odds with his own cited sources. <\/em><\/p>\n However, the story then got worse when Dr Pachauri himself came to edit and co-author the IPCC\u2019s Synthesis Report (for which the IPCC paid his Delhi-based Teri institute…). Not only did Pachauri\u2019s version again give prominence to Agoumi\u2019s 50 per cent figure, but he himself has repeated the claim on numerous occasions since…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 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.<\/p>\n And what does Rudd keep telling us about the now deeply suspect IPCC and its even more deeply compromised chairman?<\/p>\n The first thing I\u2019d 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<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n Filed under: Africa<\/a>, America (USA)<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, Climate Alarmists<\/a>, Climate Change<\/a>, Conniving Politicians<\/a>, Environment<\/a>, Environmental activists<\/a>, Fanatics<\/a>, Fear-mongering<\/a>, Fraud\/Waste<\/a>, Global Warming<\/a>, Liberals<\/a>, Lily-Livered Liberals<\/a>, Limp-Wrist Liberals<\/a>, Political Prostitutes<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Power Hungry<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Public Opinion<\/a>, Spine Donor Politicians<\/a>, U.N. – United Nations (United Nitwits)<\/a> Tagged: Andrew Bolt<\/a>, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd<\/a>, Climate Change Fraud<\/a>, Climate Change Religion<\/a>, Climategate<\/a>, Global Warming Alarmism<\/a>, Global Warming Hype<\/a>, Tony<\/a>, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/a> 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\u2019s) main 2007 report was a warning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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