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Sceptics
denounce climate science A group
of US scientists says the accepted wisdom on climate change remains unproved. They say rising greenhouse gas emissions may
not be the main factor in global warming. They argue that temperature rise
projections this century are "unknown and unknowable". They claim it is "a media myth" to
suppose that only a few scientists share their scepticism. The scientists, convened by the American
George C. Marshall Institute, were headed by former CIA director and defence
secretary James Schlesinger, and include Richard Lindzen, professor of
meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their report Climate Science and Policy:
Making the Connection says the IPCC's conclusions "have become politicised
and fail to convey the underlying uncertainties that are important in policy
considerations". Its detailed criticisms of the IPCC include:
The
authors conclude: "The IPCC simulation of surface temperature appears to be
little more than a fortuitous bit of curve-fitting rather than any genuine
demonstration of human influence on global climate." Philip
Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London and a
prominent British climate sceptic said. "The
authors challenge the key contradiction at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol, the
global climate agreement - that climate is one of the most complex systems
known, yet that we can manage it by trying to control a small set of factors,
namely greenhouse gas emissions. Scientifically, this is not mere uncertainty:
it is a lie." "The
problem with a chaotic coupled non-linear system as complex as climate is that
you can no more predict successfully the outcome of doing something as of not
doing something. Kyoto will not halt climate change. Full stop." Click
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