Swiss Alps
Wow, I guess science isn’t what it used to be. At least not at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations. In 2007 the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize (along with Al Gore) for their global warming/climate change report. It’s a report that politicians around the world point to when they want to take away our money and freedom to fight global warming. Well, at least part of the report is less about science than it is BS.
It turns out that the IPCC has been doing very little science regarding glaciers and mountain ice melt. In fact the news coming out sounds more like the IPCC is a bunch of third-graders lifting information from the encyclopedia for their report. First, news broke that the IPCC had included unsubstantiated “speculation” by one scientist contained in an 8 year old article to make a false claim that Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035. Then it was learned that the IPCC also drastically overstated both the size of Himalayan Glaciers and the rate at which they were melting. Next, Dr. Murari Lal, the scientist behind the part of the report with the bogus claims about Himalayan Glaciers admitted he included the information in order to put pressure on politicians to take action. There’s also money at the heart of all of this. But are the Himalayan Glacier errors the end of the story? Not by a long shot.
The UK Telegraph reports the IPCC has also played fast and loose with their claims about mountain ice melting in the Andes, Alps, and Africa due to global warming. How? Claims in this “scientific” report about disappearing ice in the Andes, Alps, and Africa are actually based on an article in a mountain climbing magazine and a student’s dissertation. The claims about the disappearing mountain ice were in a table of the IPCC’s report entitled “Selected observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere produced by warming”. It says reductions in mountain ice have been observed from the loss of ice climbs in the Andes, Alps and in Africa between 1900 and 2000. The problem? The claims are based on guesses and anecdotes – NOT SCIENCE. Also, both sources were written by known global warming activists not by objective scientific observers.
Global Warming is far from “settled science” and in fact it’s looking more and more like there’s no science behind it at all. Unfortunately, governments are taking action to “fight climate change” based in part on the massive load of crap in the IPCC report that is being given unwarranted credibility in many media outlets. Keep yourself informed and let your representative know you’re aware of the scam. Your money and your freedom are at stake.
