Rethinking Global Warming

By Jim.Robinson|February 16, 2010

With the stream of errors and flaws recently found in Nobel Peace Prize-winning reports on global warming, one should wonder how many errors have to be found before the claim that humans are causing global warming is undermined, said H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).

“Every time a new error is found, new evidence of misconduct, outright politically motivated alarmism, and a breakdown in peer review is exposed, scientists involved claim the errors are minor and the consensus still holds that it is still almost certain that humans are causing dangerous warming,” Burnett said.

Burnett points out that IPCC authors have been exposed, so far, for making simple mistakes on several facts, using non-peer reviewed reports to make predictions that are not supported by credible research, using incomplete data when more complete data was available, and trying to suppress dissenting evidence of publicly funded data, among other things.

“The IPCC did all this for the sake of drumming up support for political action,” Burnett said. “That is not science that is advocacy, and the IPCC is hopelessly compromised. Its leader knew about many of these problems, yet defended the reports and attacked the individuals who first brought the errors to light as being enemies of science,” he continued.

“It’s time for the media to stop blindly parroting all global warming claims, and ask questions about how solid the science really is instead,” Burnett added. “And it’s time for America as a whole to reexamine the evidence with a fresh perspective without the preconception that humans are causing catastrophic warming, especially when there is no credible evidence that we are.”