Surprise! Another Bogus Report From UN Climate Panel Exposed

If ClimateGate and the bogus Himalayas glacier reports weren't enough to finish off the credibility of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this latest disclosure may well do the trick.

A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their “research” on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning. This weekend WWF said it was launching an internal inquiry into the study.

This is the third time in as many weeks that serious doubts have been raised over the IPCC’s conclusions on climate change. Two weeks ago, after reports in The Sunday Times, it was forced to retract a warning that climate change was likely to melt the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. That warning was also based on claims in a WWF report.

Despite report after report being exposed as fraudulent, the global warming mantra still won't go away.

The IPCC has been put on the defensive as well over its claims that climate change may be increasing the severity and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

This weekend Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, was fighting to keep his job after a barrage of criticism.

Scientists fear the controversies will be used by climate change sceptics to sway public opinion to ignore global warming — even though the fundamental science, that greenhouse gases can heat the world, remains strong.

How can anyone still claim that with a straight face when all the "evidence" to make such a claim is bogus?

The latest controversy originates in a report called A Global Review of Forest Fires, which WWF published in 2000. It was commissioned from Andrew Rowell, a freelance journalist and green campaigner who has worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and anti-smoking organisations. The second author was Peter Moore, a campaigner and policy analyst with WWF.

Hard to believe someone from the radical Greenpeace would stretch the truth, isn't it?

Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow at Leeds University who specialises in tropical forest ecology, described the section of Rowell and Moore’s report predicting the potential destruction of large swathes of rainforest as “a mess”.

“The Nature paper is about the interactions of logging damage, fire and periodic droughts, all extremely important in understanding the vulnerability of Amazon forest to drought, but is not related to the vulnerability of these forests to reductions in rainfall,” he said.

“In my opinion the Rowell and Moore report should not have been cited; it contains no primary research data.”

Famed climatologist Al Gore remains unavailable for comment.

Grim News: Polar Bear Population at All-Time High

How can this be? Weren't we told by super-scientist Al Gore that due to mythical global warming these poor creatures were dying away and those who survived were stranded on ice floes?

Oh, it's all nonsense? Thought so.

Of course, inconvenient truths like this still don't deter the eco-fanatics from the NRDC, Greenpeace and the federal bench from relentlessly pushing their agenda.

So now we have an opportunity to put a temporary halt to the silliness as the Interior Department has to decide this week whether to place polar bears on the endangered species list.

Which begs the questions, why if the population is greater than ever would they be considered endangered?

What does President Bush have to lose here? Nothing. His popularity ratings can't go much lower, and no matter what he does the left will excoriate him.

So strike a blow for common sense and scuttle this, Mr. President.

Read all about it.

The world polar-bear population is at a modern high - and growing. Mitch Taylor, a polar-bear biologist with Canada's Federal Provincial Polar Bear Technical Committee, notes that the bears now number about 24,000 - up about 40 percent from 1974, when fears arose about the bear's ability to survive overhunting by Canadian Eskimos and aboriginals.
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As for the warming threat, a recent article by an FWS researcher looked at how much of the bears' sea-ice habitat would vanish under the UN's (gloomy) climate projections - about 30 percent. So, even if the bears are using all the habitat now available, there'd still be habitat for about 17,000 polar bears 100 years from now.

In other words, even under the most pessimistic respectable estimates of the global-warming threat, polar bears won't be threatened with extinction or anything approaching it.
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So a listing based on a global-warming threat could oblige the entire federal government to stop anything that's seen as exacerbating warming. New electrical-power plants or other projects across the nation could be subject to federal review and quashed if they would generate greenhouse gases, because they might contribute to arctic warming that might melt sea ice.

Economic growth across the entire country could be stymied by a new burst of regulation.

The environuts aren't just anti-common sense. They're anti-capitalist.

The evidence is in.

Greenpeace Freakazoids Breach Heathrow Security

Very comforting to see how easily security at one of the world's major airports can be breached.

Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a jet at Heathrow today in what was described as an "incredible security breach".

The two men and two women posed as staff at Terminal 1, wearing high-visibility jackets and carrying fake ID cards.

They waited until passengers got off the flight from Manchester before walking through double doors, crossing the tarmac and climbing the stairs.

The area was ringed by police in a stand-off lasting over an hour after they clambered on to tail section of the British Airways Airbus 320.

Protesting against expansion of the airport, they draped a banner on the tail fin saying "Climate emergency - no third runway" as they gave interviews to the press on mobile phones.

The breach will be an enormous embarrassment to the authorities at Heathrow, which has been targeted by terrorists several times. Security is supposedly at its tightest in the airport's history.

It comes as an investigation showed that a "bomb-making kit" could be smuggled on board a plane despite increased checks following an alleged al Qaeda "liquid bomb plot".

Needless to say, they better get their act together.
If these nitwits can get through this easily, how easy will it be for the terrorists?

Getting Naked for Global Warming

There's never any end to the idiocy.

Hundreds pose naked on shrinking Swiss glacier

ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland's shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

Tunick, perched on a ladder and using a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe and photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.

Later he took pictures of them standing in groups on the mass of ice and lying down. Camera crews were staged at five different points on the glacier to take photographs.

Glaciers are sensitive to climate change and have been receding since the start of the industrial age but the pace of shrinkage has accelerated in recent years.

The environmental group Greenpeace, which organised the shoot, said the aim was to "establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body."

Glad to see they're raising awareness. I'd never heard of this "global warming" silliness before today.