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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
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 on the bottom. 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. |
Nothing that I wrote was "nonsense" and sweeping statements like that do not lead to conversation (despite that isn't the topic of this thread anyway).
However, if you would like to send links corroborating your statements, I would be happy to read them.
The IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 1997.