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I might believe in global warming if it were actually happening. If one cares to check the average temperature of the last 20 years, one will find that the world has not gotten any warmer since 1998. In fact, the average temperature has decreased slightly since then.

In a BBC interview a year or so ago following the "Climategate" scandal, The head of the UN's Climate Research Unit, Dr Phil Jones, was forced to admit that there has been any not statistical global warming since 1995.

Temperatures have been increasing in cities, but this has more to do with urban heat island effect than Co2 in the atmosphere. Temperatures in the countryside have been decreasing. In a damning part of the emails leaked during the "Climategate" scandal, CRU scientists expressed their concern when tree ring data collected in Siberia showed cooling temperatures, and these same scientists tried to figure out a way to "hide the decline" in their official reports. Their method has been to continually reduce the numbers of thermometers, taking readings from thermometers in city and suburban areas, and not from thermometers in the countryside. In 1960, more than 6000 thermometers were used for this purpose, whereas nowadays fewer than 2000 thermometers are now used. This point should be moot, as America's GISS satellites have been able to measure atmospheric temperatures since the late 70's, but you won't find satellite temperature readings used in the IPCC reports, probably because their readings can't be "massaged" by IPCC scientists to show anything but what they are.

All previous UN IPCC reports included computer models which were used to predict increases in global temperatures. To date, not a single one of these computer models has proved accurate.

Regarding the official IPCC reports, all of them have been plagued with errors. The 1996 report originally stated that scientists were unable to verify any man-made influence on climate change. However, this was changed to say that there was a "discernible human influence". But this change was made without consulting the peer-review group of scientists. It apperared that the authors of the report were made to change it's contents so as to agree with the political agenda of the policy makers who sponsored the report.

Universities and research centers around the world receive billions of dollars in government and industry grants, and global warming has become a multi-trillion dollar industry itself. If there were no global warming (and Dr Jones admits right now there isn't, though he believes it will start "eventually"), what would these organizations do?