{"id":429484,"date":"2010-03-15T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5360"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:49:54","slug":"you-could-not-make-it-up-we-climate-scientists-are-not-ecofanatics-by-john-houghton-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429484","title":{"rendered":"You Could Not Make It Up: We climate scientists are not ecofanatics by John Houghton, The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: You could not make it up<\/a><\/p>\n

In the UK only about 26 per cent of the population believe the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is man-made. Many feel they are being steamrollered into believing something false or flakey that will make them poorer or stop them flying. <\/p>\n

Given this dangerous mood of scepticism, it is no surprise that the IPCC \u2014 the body that represents the integrity of climate-change scientists across the world \u2014 is being attacked. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, sometimes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does get it wrong. It was an error to include a poorly sourced claim in its 2007 report about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting; but this mistake was marginal \u2014 it did not influence any of the IPCC\u2019s main conclusions or appear in the summaries of the report. The great body of the IPCC\u2019s work represents science at its best \u2014 and it needs defending from its detractors. <\/p>\n

The IPCC is not a self-selected group of scientists with a political agenda. It was founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation and the UN Environment Programme with a mandate to produce accurate, balanced assessments about human-induced climate change. <\/p>\n

I was chairman or co-chairman of the Science Working Group from 1988\u20132002, through the first three IPCC reports. About 70 scientists from around the world attended the first meeting of the group near Oxford early in 1989. We had no preconceived agenda regarding our conclusions. In fact, a number of attendees argued that not enough was known about human-induced climate change to produce any significant report. However, we agreed that we would identify carefully what we knew with reasonable certainty, estimate the uncertainties and distinguish it from what we were much more uncertain about. This doesn\u2019t exactly mark us out as a bunch of ecofanatics. <\/p>\n

The IPCC is too big an organisation to be captured by an ideological cabal or fall foul of group-think. It draws in scientists from every discipline from many different nations. Climatologists from Benin rub shoulders with scientists from the West, and from Saudi Arabia and other petrol-states for whom belief in global warming is against their immediate interests. <\/p>\n

The IPCC process also makes it impossible for green propaganda to be slipped in. The IPCC has published four reports \u2014 in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007. Each contains three volumes covering science, impacts and mitigation; in 2007 each volume was about 1,000 pages long. Their main content is a detailed review of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers. But a report from Greenpeace or any other campaigning body would not be included because the science would not be considered robust enough.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click source to read more of this drivel, also read motls.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: timesonline.co.uk<\/p>\n

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