Media has failed public on climate change

IN 1995, the scientists had finalised their summary of the science behind climate change for the second IPCC assessment report.

In it they had many statements saying carbon dioxide was not having any effect. Here is one of those statements:

‘‘No study to date has positively attributed all or part (of the climate change observed) to (manmade) causes’’.

Prior to this summary going to the political representatives for political alterations, the convening lead author, Ben Santer, unilaterally deleted these statements and replaced them with ‘‘the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate’’.

There was no published peerreviewed paper that supported or justified this change. and none have been published since.

What is not widely understood is that the IPCC was specifically set up to show that humans caused climate change.

The aim was to generate a crisis that would pressure governments to agree to the formation of a world governing body run by the UN.

The details of this were all in the 2009 draft agreement for the Copenhagen Conference. Without this dishonest alteration, the IPCC would be finished, as would the UN’s dream of global governance.

While most of the IPCC science report is kosher, that dealing with the role of carbon dioxide, methane and the sun are not.

The IPCC and UN have made no secret of their ambitions, so one has to wonder why the media, who like to pride themselves as the public watchdog, have failed the public so dismally. Peter Foster

Merton

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