Filed under: Capitalism, Economy, Energy, Law, Progressivism | Tags: Democrat Corruption, EPA. Cap-and-trade, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
From the website of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) website:
The IPCC’s mission is to reflect the science, not create it. As the IPCC states, its duty is:
assessing the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human induced climate change. It does not carry out new research nor does it monitor climate-related data.
When the EPA is regulating CO2 on the basis of the IPCC”s assessments, and Congress is attempting to pass vast cap-and-trade legislation that will cripple the American economy on the basis of IPCC increasingly flawed assessments, it is interesting to learn the IPCC’s own evaluation of just what it does and what its mission is.
There has been no significant warming since 1998, and the climate has actually cooled since 2002. The temperature sources that showed alarming warming have been proven to be faulty. The major “greenhouse” gas is water vapor — clouds, fog, mist — in far, far greater quantities than CO2, that has far more influence on climate, yet clouds are poorly understood.
Yet on the basis of IPCC global warming claims, laws are being put in place to force our economy to depend for its energy needs on the portion of our energy sources that currently accounts for only 2.4 percent of our electricity needs.
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American Elephants 
“The IPCC’s mission is to reflect the science, not create it. As the IPCC states, its duty is:
assessing the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human induced climate change. It does not carry out new research nor does it monitor climate-related data.”
Wouldn’t help if they could read the science in the order that the numbers actually work? and..how can they not monitor climate related data, and make such assessments in their papers? Wouldn’t monitoring THE DATA they were given be required in order to draw any conclusions, since in science, conclusions are based on THE DATA, which has to be monitored (also read: observed)?
Call me a crazy dissenter, but it seems that freshman science taught us these very simplistic ideas on how to go about practicing science, such as making hypothesis, observing data and making conclusions! Maybe I missed that part while managing to gain that credit with an A+ grademark?
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Comment by Mike Lovell October 23, 2009 @ 8:07 amThe IPCC was founded as a political organization, to PROVE that global warming was the fault of humanity–not to see if there actually was a problem. Now the “evidence” and the scientific case are all falling apart, but the politicians are certainly not willing to give up their policies and programs for preventing drastic warming, the rising of the seas, and all the other horrors promised by Al Gore. Cap-and-trade promises way too much money funneled to the government and way too much power, which is what it was all about in the first place.
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Comment by The Elephant's Child October 23, 2009 @ 12:20 pm