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Originally Posted by MMM
Let's have full disclosure, and this is from Fox News (not fans of Gore, in any way)
Read this Fox News article for a more accurate story...
British Court Rules Al Gore Film Exaggerated Climate Claims - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Despite finding nine significant errors the judge said many of the claims made by the film were fully backed up by the weight of science. He identified “four main scientific hypotheses, each of which is very well supported by research published in respected, peer-reviewed journals and accords with the latest conclusions of the IPCC.”
In particular, he agreed with the main thrust of Gore’s arguments: “That climate change is mainly attributable to man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (‘greenhouse gases’).”
The other three main points accepted by the judge were that global temperatures are rising and are likely to continue to rise, that climate change will cause serious damage if left unchecked, and that it is entirely possible for governments and individuals to reduce its impacts. |
Nonsense. There was no genuine "peer review".
Section 8.4.2.1 of the 1996 IPCC report (upon which some of the facts for Gore's movie were based).
new: "Implicit in these global mean results is a weak attribution statement--if the observed global mean changes over the last 20 to 50 years cannot be fully explained by natural climate variability, some (unknown) fraction of the changes must be due to human influences".
deleted: "None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases."
Section 8.4.2.3.
new: "To date, pattern-based studies have not been able to quantify the magnitude of a greenhouse gas or aerosol effect on climate. Our current inability to estimate reliably the fraction of the observed temperature changes that are due to human effects does not mean that this fraction is negligible. The very fact that pattern-based studies have been able to discern sub-global-scale features of a combined CO2 + aerosol signal relative to the ambient noise of natural internal variability implies that there may be a non-negligible human effect on global climate."
The "peer reviewed" IPCC report contained the deleted paragraph in the middle. The "new" paragraphs were added to the report without the knowledge of the reviewing scientists in order to make the report conform to the standards mandated by "policy makers", which was to suggest that Co2 and man were the causes of global warming, even though the reviewing scientists said that this might not be the case.
Changes to Chapter 8
Gore got a Nobel Prize for lying.