Ya, he's an idiot! lol I'm more of Libertarian......social liberal, fiscal conservitive.
Cantleave, one of main co-author of that report is a man by the name of Richard Tol. That report was released sometime after the last IPCC report after they had sometime to review the claims and data within. It was peer reviewed by over 1000 scientists. This newest report was just released, and is just an update (#5) of the original report. The dissenting report came out after Update #4. Now, where it gets interesting is that Richard Tol was one of the main authors and researchers of the UN board of Climate Change. Then came the whole"climate-gate" that woke him up. That was the leaked e-mail scandal involving some of the other authors of the IPCC report.
“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming…The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”—Dr. Kevin Trenberth, IPCC Lead Author, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Oct. 12, 2009
“I’ve just completed Mike’s [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s [Briffa] to hide the decline.”—Dr. Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Nov. 16, 1999
“Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were…”—Dr. Tim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Dec. 20, 2006
“…If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say 0.15 deg C, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we’d still have to explain the land blip…”—Dr. Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, on adjusting global temperature data, disclosed Climategate e-mail to Phil Jones, Sep. 28, 2008
We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data.”—Climatic Research Unit web site, the world’s leading provider of global temperature data, admitting that it can’t produce the original thermometer data, 2011
I mean, there's all kinds of research and dissenting opinions out there. All I'm saying is, keep an open mind....look at everything. Yes there are changing weather patterns, have been for millions of years......
@besty, sorry about the typo........hard time on the lil phone screen. I really have to get something larger, easier to read. But thank you for calling my attention to it!
