"new humiliations for the IPCC"

There's growing scientific consensus that the IPCC is on its deathbed:

It’s not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035.

Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away.  A report in Sunday’s London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

There is however one teensy-weensy little problem.  As Professor Chris Field, the lead author of the IPCC’s climate impact team has now told reporters that he can find “no evidence” to support the claim in the IPCC’s 2007 report.

There’s more.  When the glacier story broke, IPCC apologists returned over and over again to a saving grace.  The bogus glacier report appeared in the body of the IPCC document, but not in the much more carefully vetted Synthesis Report, in which the IPCC’s senior leadership made its specific recommendations to world leaders.  So it didn’t matter that much, the apologists told us, and we can still trust the rigorously checked and reviewed Synthesis Report.

But that’s where the African rain crisis prediction is found — in the supposedly sacrosanct Synthesis Report.

So: the Synthesis Report contains a major scare prediction — 50% shortfall in North African food production just ten years from now — and there is no serious, peer-reviewed evidence that the prediction is true.

But there’s more. Much, much more. 

Pull the plug on the IPCC and pull the plug now.  They need to seriously give up the Nobel Peace Prize, give back the money and her members go back to doing whatever it is they were doing before.

Now.

Crossposted(*).

Comments

[Jim Shearon]

Global Warming, or as the left would repackage it,"Climate Change", is a scientifically proven cycle that happens over the course of 100's and 1000's of years, not in a single generation. Al Gore needs to wake up and realize that he represents only one generation who's average lifespan is now somewhere between 70 and 80 years. So what makes him an authority on this issue? The answer is GREED. He want's to get rich off of a hoax hoping that the illiterate will buy into it. Obama supports it so he can "try" to get "Cap and Trade" passed to tax us more to "try" and use it to pay off the huge debt that he and congress have placed on this country through their massive spending on worthless programs. How many jobs have been created under this administration? Zero! Simple math; jobs created minus jobs lost is a negative number! Hello!?!? The only jobs created were worthless governmental bureaus and additional personnel to staff the unemployment offices that have ever increasing unemployment claims. Back to "Climate Change". Have you seen or heard anything out of Al Gore lately since the manipulation of climate chage data was discovered? Case closed!!!