Meltdown

The Fourth IPCC TAR report comes out today, and like the last one, it’s a pile of jury rigged conclusions.

Scientific evidence for human-induced global warming will receive a significant boost Friday when the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the summary of a key report, according to environmental activists and top Democrats in Congress.

But wait.

Some climate researchers and environmental scientists previously associated with the IPCC claim the public relations summary of the panel’s fourth assessment report distorts the actual scientific findings and that the discrepancies are driven by a political agenda.

The IPCC Summary for Policymakers, roughly 20 pages long, is primarily the work of political appointees, not of scientists, according to Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at MIT.

The full text will not be available for another three months, as two further documents making up the fourth assessment report are scheduled to be released in April and May.

Lindzen specialized in the study of clouds and water vapor for IPCC’s third assessment report, which was released in 2001.

He told Cybercast News Service the rules for the fourth assessment report specifically require changes to be made to the body that will bring it into line with the summary statement.

“If you were doing that with a business report, the federal trade commission would be down your throat,” Lindzen said.

Whenever people from one side of a political fence are screeching about something, and you can be sure it’s an agenda of some kind. All you have to do is drill down, objectively, to see that it’s all about the Benjamins. While pro GW people like to claim all skeptics are tools of the greedy oil companies, it never seems to dawn on them that they are parroting propaganda from the leaders of this GW movement, who are bureaucrats and grant grubbing scientists.  Bureaucrats love manufactured crises because they can use them to get laws passed that give them more tax dollars and power. Grant grubbers use these kind of crises to get more grant money. After all, many scientists live on grant money. That’s their income. So they will do anything to insure the gravy train is running, including lie and falsify reports.

When you consider that their best evidence is computer models which are easily faked and not the weather, which conveniently is unseasonably warm sometimes, but not consistently. And the fact that most of the arguments used by the GW proponents are based in logical fallacies it becomes clear that the man-made global warming theory is just that, a theory, based more on assumptions than real facts. Theories are made to be criticized. To be held up to analysis.

But when they use the evil oil companies are behind the critics defense, that’s clearly a straw man argument. Another logical fallacy. Just because someone disagrees with man-made global warming doesn’t make them an oil company shill and it does nothing refute the merits of the critics position. In fact, even if energy companies hold an anti-global warming position, that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

Personally, I am all for getting rid of fossil fuels. But until we have a working replacement for them, it’s not practical. And radically transforming society to cut back on energy use when it’s not necessary is only going to hurt people’s livelihoods and well being. People are not going to give up their jobs and their comforts for some half baked theory. Nor should they.

New energy sources will come on line in the near future. Progress marches on. Someday, in most of our lifetimes, this will be a moot argument.

UPDATE: See what I mean about liars? The new IPCC report cuts a lot of the previous GW estimates, which should tell you how accurate they are at all. 

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