Politics Posing as Science:
A Preliminary Assessmentof the IPCC's Latest Climate Change Report
Steven F. Hayward, Kenneth P. Green, and Joel Schwartz
Dec 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for
Policymakers (SPM) of its Synthesis Report (SR) should be taken with
several chunks of salt.1
The summary itself is a political document that downplays assessments of
uncertainty from the scientific reports written by the main body of the
IPCC, which themselves are far more subjective than the IPCC would have
one believe. Equally important, both the IPCC's summaries and main
reports omit much contrary evidence. In several cases, the SR disagrees
with the reports on which it is based, and it fails to take account of
cautionary publications in the scientific literature that were available
early enough to have been incorporated into the SR.
Climate change and climate policy are key issues for future human
welfare, but that concern should translate into sober analysis and
actions that are likely to do more good than harm. The people of the
world should not let themselves be steamrolled by a report that reflects
the IPCC's interest in promoting climate change fears, rather than in
conveying the weight of the scientific evidence.
http://www.joelschwartz.com/pdfs/SChwartz_IPCC_SR_analysis_120407.pdf
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