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Report a comment Thank you for taking the time to report the following comment to the administrator of this site. Please complete this short form and click the submit button to process your report. Comment in question 07-05-2009 19:56 Scientific IPCC vs sceptic spin The "mission" of the IPCC was to scientifically assess the basis of global warming - it was NOT "to bolster the hypothesis that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing harmful climate change" (a clearly un-scientific approach). The endless carping from un-scientific climate sceptics about the consensus-based, scientific, Nobel Prize-winning IPCC is very irritating. If the internationally represented IPCC as constituted was deficient then the requirement would be to set up another collection of thousands of reputable climate scientists - who would no doubt face the same obfuscatory criticism from spin-based climate sceptics. What the anti-science, spin-based climate sceptics simply don't understand is that the thousands of IPCC scientists - as practising scientists - were all in essence attempting to DISPROVE the hypothesis of man-made global warming (science being about the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses). In contrast, the anti-science, spin-based climate sceptics attempt to prove that AGW does not exist - an impossibility since you can't prove a negative e.g. you can't "prove" that MWC News is not a front for alien invaders from outer space. According to the analysis summary published by the very eminent Professor John Holdren and based on the IPCC AR4 (see: John Holdren (2008), “The Science of Climatic Disruption” (power point lecture)) "The warming influence of anthropogenic GHG and absorbing particles is ~30X the warming influence of the estimated change in input from the Sun." Guest |
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