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U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
New U.N. greenhouse gas report should be viewed with skepticism
By Dr. Tim Ball
Friday, May 4, 2007
Ottawa, Canada, May 3, 2007 –The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) alerts media to the serious fundamental problems with the report due out Friday from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
The report ignores recent findings that carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas of most concern in most schemes to 'stop climate change', cannot be a primary cause of the past century's modest warming because atmospheric levels of this gas have not risen gradually as suggested by the Antarctic ice core records. According to recent studies, including a thoroughly peer-reviewed paper recently published in Energy and Environment, the CO2 records used by the IPCC are highly questionable at best and more likely based on a fraudulent selection of the available data. More accurate and widely distributed chemical measurements show that CO2 levels have been as high as, if not higher than, current levels at various times in the past 200 years.
Like other IPCC Fourth Assessment Reports issued to date, the upcoming Working Group III (WG III) report is merely the 'Summary for Policymakers' (SPM), an executive summary agreed to line by line by government representatives. The vast majority of experts who are writing the WG III technical report will not have seen the SPM beforehand and so whether it actually reflects the findings of IPCC specialists will not be known until the technical report is released in September.
Like WG II, the work of WG III is based on the assumption that the conclusions of Working Group I (WG I), which reports on the science of climate change, are valid. However, the science report of WG I has yet to be issued and many of the world's leading climate experts have already refuted the exaggerated claims of the WG I SPM. If WG I is flawed, then both WG II and WG III are largely inconsequential and should be viewed with considerable skepticism.
For more information or to set up interviews with NRSP participants, please visit www.nrsp.com or contact:
̉Dr. Tim Ball is a renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the Univ. of Winnipeg. Dr. Ball employs his extensive background in climatology and other fields as an advisor to the International Climate Science Coalition, Friends of Science and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Dr. Ball can be reached [email=Letters@canadafreepress.com]here[/email]. He can be reached at letters@canadafreepress.com
