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Discredited IPCC Also Reveals Media's Malpractice

By Paul Chesser on 1.26.10 @ 5:17PM

At his BBC blog Andrew Neil lays out the itemized fraud from the 2007 UN IPCC report that has been rolling out in recent days, previously reported by the BBC and other formerly mainstream media as "sound" and "consensus" science.

But the flood gates really opened after the IPCC had to withdraw its claim that the Himalayan glaciers would likely all have melted by 2035, maybe even sooner.

This turned out to have no basis in scientific fact, even though everything the IPCC produces is meant to be rigorously peer-reviewed, but simply an error recycled by the [World Wildlife Fund], which the IPCC swallowed whole....

Then at the weekend another howler was exposed. The IPCC 2007 report claimed that global warming was leading to an increase in extreme weather, such as hurricanes and floods. Like its claims about the glaciers, this was also based on an unpublished report which had not been subject to scientific scrutiny -- indeed several experts warned the IPCC not to rely on it.

Now after Climate-gate, Glacier-gate and Hurricane-gate -- how many "gates" can one report contain? -- comes Amazon-gate. The IPCC claimed that up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests were risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise.

This claim is backed up by a scientific-looking reference but on closer investigation turns out to be yet another non-peer reviewed piece of work from the WWF. Indeed the two authors are not even scientists or specialists on the Amazon: one is an Australian policy analyst, the other a freelance journalist for the Guardian and a green activist.

Yep, this is the "scientific consensus" that Al Gore based his post-VP life upon; the imagined groundswell that so many politicians used to justify government growth; the nonexistent evidence that journalists cited to justify their alarmism activism. It's the two words that every global warmist (whether lying or deceived themselves) threw in the face of skeptics in an attempt to intimidate. Didn't work!

No wonder why hardly any of them wanted to debate and those who did got slaughtered. We tried to explain that the "consensus" was an illusion. You -- yes, I'm talking about you, Society of Environmental Journalists -- would have none of it.

Now you're stuck in the shoes of the environmental equivalent of Jayson Blair as your newspapers and television stations fall apart, and while what's left of your audience doesn't care about the issue you hold so precious. But it's your good fortune that you still qualify for the do-nothing flack positions that are plentiful in both government and nonprofit arms of the environoia industry.

topics:
Mainstream Media, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climategate

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Ron Wilson| 1.26.10 @ 6:39PM

Nice link Mr. Chesser. I checked out the BBC blog. Sounds like Al Gore's documentary was science fiction ...

danny| 1.26.10 @ 7:07PM

ron, no kidding. you just now finding that out? duh.

J. Kelley| 1.26.10 @ 7:33PM

For those of us old enough to remember the (Ice Age) of the 1970s. We had head lines of the coming Doomsday freeze. Soon, mabey next year the MSM media will switch over to Global Cooling. And pretend the Global Warming never happened. We have been in the cooling mode for about three years. This is a normal cycle of warming and cooling. We should strive for clean air and clean enegry, but this Global warming scare was for control and higher taxes.We should take advantage of our Natural Gas in this country. Also use our Oil that we have in this country. When wind and solar becomes profitable Companies will develope them.

Dr. Skeptic| 1.26.10 @ 8:15PM

Trending oxymoron: "Environmental Journalist." (see www.sej.org). How many "Environmental Journalists" question Al Gore? None. "Eco-propagandist" would be a more fitting title.

Mr. Xyz| 1.26.10 @ 8:51PM

Glaciergate--A relatively tame Hitler parody video

Glaciergate: Hitler's Last Straw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-6U5MwyDM

Lazy Jack| 1.26.10 @ 9:51PM

C'mon folks. It is not lying. Nor, is it fraud.

According to Old Nick's Notebook, a lie is not the absence of truth.

It is earnest fabrication.

Lazy Jack

www.thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com

Floyd| 1.26.10 @ 10:35PM

They know they are lying. Thats why its fraud.

Franklin| 1.26.10 @ 10:56PM

I was so disgusted with Global Warming Alarmists when I realized that they hijacked the environmentalism of my youth. We used to just want cleaner air, less trash and some wilderness left on this earth.

When the greenie-meanies took over, I began to gnash my teeth every time I heard the word "green". How dare they turn it to all about money and power?

It made me so angry that I wanted to use a whole roll of TP for every flush, stop recycling and drive miles out of my way in my gas guzzler.

Climategate and all the other -gates is such sweet music. Such satisfaction!

Ran / Si Vis Pacem| 1.26.10 @ 11:41PM

Heh! We've figured out how to profit from all those drowned polar bears...

John A. Jauregui| 1.28.10 @ 6:12PM

This is MediaGate, not ClimateGate! Are you angry about this obvious RICO Act fraud and the national media's complicity in the cover-up, misinformation, reframing and misdirection of the issue and the related “carbon derivatives” market Obama’s Administration is spinning up? Why pay for propaganda? Take responsibility and take action. STOP all donations to the political party(s) responsible for this fraud. STOP donations to all environmental groups which funded this Global Warming propaganda campaign with our money, especially The World Wildlife Fund. They have violated the public trust. KEEP donations local, close to home. MAKE donations to Oklahoma’s Senator Inhofe, the only politician to stand firmly against this obvious government/media coordinated information operation (propaganda) targeted at its own people. People that government leaders and employees are sworn to protect. WRITE your state and federal representatives demanding wall to wall investigations of government sponsored propaganda campaigns and demand indictments of those responsible. WRITE your state and federal Attorneys General demanding Al Gore and others conducting Global Warming/Climate Change racketeering and mail fraud operations be brought to justice, indicted, tried, convicted and jailed. Carbon is the stuff of life. He (Obama) who controls carbon, especially CO2, controls the world. Think of the consequences if you do nothing! For one, the UK is becoming the poster child for George Orwell’s “1984”. The mendacity of UK’s John Beddington, Robert Watson and Ed Miliband prove the point. The US government’s sponsorship of this worldwide Global Warming propaganda campaign puts it in a class with the failed Soviet Union’s relentless violation of the basic human right to truthful government generated information. Given ClimateGate’s burgeoning revelations of outrageous government misconduct and massive covert misinformation, what are the chances that this Administration’s National Health Care sales campaign is anywhere near the truth?

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