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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10356276/Climate-change-scientists-are-just-another-pressure-group.html


Climate change 'scientists' are just another pressure group

"Last weekend, something very odd happened. On Friday we were told that in Stockholm the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) had published a report saying that it was now "extremely likely" that the world faces disastrous man-made climate change. But this was merely a "summary" for politicians and the media of a scientific report that was not published until three days later. We then learnt that this "Summary for Policymakers" had been argued over for days and sleepless nights by hundreds of politicians, officials and scientists, but, weirdly, that the scientific report it supposedly summarised had subsequently been amended to bring it into line with the summary. One obvious change from previous drafts was the marked downplaying of any reference to how, in recent years, global temperatures have so notably failed to rise as the IPCC's computer models predicted ...

Scientists who had approved the report protested that there was nothing in their text to justify this. But, to their amazement, they discovered that their agreed version had been amended to include this very phrase, citing as its authority two papers not yet published by Ben Santer, an American scientist who had also played a key part in drafting the summary ...

In years to come this will be looked back on as the most astonishing example in history of how the prestige of "science" can be used to promote a particular belief system, in this case with the aid of those skewed computer models that can be seen ever more clearly not to accord with the observed evidence. ..."