We are meant to believe that thousands of scientists collaborated on the famous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paper that warned of global warming and then came to the conclusion that man-made CO2 is causing Global warming.
But University of Guelph Professor ROSS McKITRICK recently blogged in the Detroit free press, and I quote:
“I know that the IPCC supposedly has thousands of experts who all say that global warming is a crisis. I was one of the people who worked on that report [emphasis mine, Ed]. The reality is they never asked us if we agreed with the conclusions, and only a handful of authors had a say in the final summary. In any case, I don’t care how many professors agree or disagree on something, what matters is whether I agree with the data.”
To me that’s asking for inputs, then ignoring them in the final report, but quoting the names of the people who were ignored!! I call that fraudulent misrepresentation.
Expanding on the current situation, Ross points out that IPCC projected that the main effect of CO2 over the past century should have been a strong warming in the mid-troposphere over the tropics of one-quarter to one-half degree Celsius per decade and that should now be observable.
Ross explains [summarized - Ed]: “But data from the University of Alabama and Remote Sensing Systems in California show a 30-year trend over the tropics of (a statistically insignificant) six-hundredths of a degree Celsius per decade. In other words, the data do not show the warming trend that the models say should be under way, if greenhouse gases have such a big effect on the climate.
“There are other clues that the effect of greenhouse gases may have been overstated. The stratosphere is supposed to be cooling, but the satellite instruments show that since 1995 there has been no such trend.
“Our best current data sets do not support the idea that CO2 is causing a global warming problem.”
Ross has collected his writings on this subject here: ross.mckitrick.googlepages.com/
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Given that the IPCC reports are full of qualifications and uncertainty, I suspected all along that the scientists who wrote the report had little input into the final conclusion that CO2 drives global warming. Nonetheless, I’m stunned to read Professor McKITRICK’s statement.
-Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com