New Report Finds Red-faced Errors
by IPCC and Gore
March
2, 2007
An analysis of the United Nations
widely-touted 2007 IPCC Global Warming Summary for Policymakers by
Since Lord Monckton alerted the UN
about its errors, the UN substantially rewrote and corrected the report,
Monckton claims in his new analysis. (see http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20070226_monckton.pdf
)
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley,
an aide to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sent the UN a list
of 31 errors and exaggerations shortly after launch of the summary in February
2007 of its latest report on the science of climate change.
The UN’s climate-change body, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, did not reply directly to Lord
Monckton’s criticism, but made many of the corrections nevertheless.
“The tradition of elementary but serious
scientific errors, of which the notorious ‘hockey-stick’ graph of estimated
global temperatures over the past 1,000 years is an example, is alive and well
in the UN’s 2007 report,” Lord Monckton said.
“The UN has still not corrected or
apologized for the ‘hockey-stick’, by which it falsely abolished the mediaeval
warm period, when temperatures were 2 or 3C warmer than today, and disaster
failed to ensue. But it has been forced to correct several schoolboy howlers –
though it has not had the honesty to announce publicly and clearly that it has
done so,” Monckton said.
“The heavily-corrected version of
the IPCC report has been furtively posted on the IPCC’s
website, www.ipcc.ch. There has been no
public statement by the IPCC admitting to the errors,” Monckton added.
The UN has been forced to halve
its high-end estimate of the rise in sea-level to 2100, and it has also sharply
reduced its estimate of our entire effect on the climate since 1750, according
to Monckton.
Monckton echoed
“It is too politicized and too
incompetent to serve any useful purpose,” Monckton said.
Monckton’s new analysis also
points out significant science errors in Al Gore’s Oscar winning film “An
Inconvenient Truth.”
“The IPCC’s
exaggerations and errors parallel those of Al Gore in his notorious sci-fi
horror film An Inconvenient Truth, now
being peddled to schoolchildren worldwide,” Monckton said.
For further details, please contact Lord
Monckton’s office: +44 1882 632341: monckton@mail.com