[opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:33:39 -0800
Scientific fraud must be okay when it's done by the U.N. Just as raping and
pimping children is ignored when done by U.N. 'peacekeepers.'
I tend to doubt that these types of offenses -- or ignoring the Rwandan
genocide -- were caused by oil or oil companies. (Despite being in favor of
free markets, I tend to blanch at defending oil companies.)
John Willkie
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of John Shutt
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 12:30 PM
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>
> The question is, who is getting paid to lie?
>
> John
>
> http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20070201_monckton.pdf
>
> IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
> 2007
> Analysis and Summary
> February 2007
> by Christopher Monckton
> Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
>
> Figures in the final draft of the UN's fourth five-year report on climate
> change show that the previous report, in 2001, had overestimated the human
> influence on the climate since the Industrial Revolution by at least
> one-third.
>
> Also, the UN, in its 2007 report, has more than halved its high-end best
> estimate of the rise in sea level by 2100 from 3 feet to just 17 inches.
> It
> suggests that the rate of sea-level rise is up from 2mm/yr to 3mm/year -
> no
> more than one foot in a century.
>
> UN scientists faced several problems their computer models had not
> predicted. Globally, temperature is not rising at all, and sea level is
> not
> rising anything like as fast as had been forecast. Concentrations of
> methane
> in the air are actually falling.
>
> The Summary for Policymakers was issued February 2, 2007, but the report
> on
> which the Summary is based will not be published until May. This strange
> separation of the publication dates has raised in some minds the
> possibility
> that the Summary (written by political representatives of governments)
> will
> be taken as a basis for altering the science chapters (written by
> scientists, and supposedly finalized and closed in December 2006).
>
> The draft of the science chapters, now being circulated to governments for
> last-minute comments, reveals that the tendency of computers to over-
> predict
> rises in temperature and sea level has forced a major rethink.
>
> The report's generally more cautiously-expressed projections confirm
> scientists' warnings that the UN's heavy reliance on computer models had
> exaggerated the temperature effect of greenhouse-gas emissions.
>
> Previous reports in 1990, 1995 and 2001 had been progressively more
> alarmist. In the final draft of the new report there is a change in tone.
> Though carbon dioxide in the air is increasing, global temperature is not.
>
> Figures from the US National Climate Data Center show 2006 as about 0.03
> degrees Celsius warmer worldwide than 2001. Since that is within the range
> of measurement error, global temperature has not risen in a statistically
> significant sense since the UN's last report in 2001.
>
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