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Old 08-18-2010, 09:28 PM  
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The UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was ?only a few dozen experts,? he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.

?Claims such as ?2,500 of the world?s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate? are disingenuous,? the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered ?the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.?

Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...#ixzz0x1Judqkq


That's how the scientific method works..

Oh... please!!! The author of that piece, Lawrence Solomon, is a notorious climate change denier, and the article you linked to is an opinion piece, not reportage.

I have to ask you too--what's the payoff for being willfully stupid?
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