The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider
by Steven Mosher, Watts Up With That, June 14, 2010 [here]
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.
“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”
Choice excerpts from Hulme:
“Without a careful explanation about what it means, this drive for consensus can leave the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism. Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous. That particular consensus judgment, as are many others in the IPCC reports, is reached by only a few dozen experts in the specific field of detection and attribution studies…”
And philosophical types will want to dig here
“Mayer and Arndt (2009) warn against the ‘epistemological hegemony’ of the IPCC and sociologist Bruno Latour goes so far as to describe the IPCC as an ‘epistemological monster’…” … [more]
Read the rest [here]
And Hulme’s full text [here]
Note: was it really necessary for a “scientist” to tell us that the “scientific consensus” about global warming was a fraud, a rotten plank to the Greatest Hoax in History? It might be telling that Dr. Hulme is a member of the Carbon Research Unit in East Anglia, the same bunch whose fraud perping was revealed by Climategate, or it might not. It has been six months since that particular nest of fraudmongers was exposed. Finally one of the insiders breaks his silence. My carefully measured response: no sh*t, Sherlock.