Climate change: this is not science – it’s mumbo jumbo ‘The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which published on Friday the first instalment of its latest report, is a deeply discredited organisation. Presenting itself as the voice of science on this important issue, it is a politically motivated pressure group that brings the good name of science into disrepute. Its previous report, in 2007, was so grotesquely flawed that the leading scientific body in the United States, the InterAcademy Council, decided that an investigation was warranted. The IAC duly reported in 2010, and concluded that there were “significant shortcomings in each major step of [the] IPCC’s assessment process”, and that “significant improvements” were needed. It also chastised the IPCC for claiming to have “high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence”. Since then, little seems to have changed, and the latest report is flawed like its predecessor.’ Read more: Climate change: this is not science – it’s mumbo jumbo http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/climate-change-this-is-not-science-its-mumbo-jumbo/ Sent by gReader