Here is another in a recent flurry of articles detailing the role ideology has played in the Global Warming Alarmism, as opposed to true science. In particular,
"The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research."As for the stringent scientific scrutiny that this data goes through to reach "scientific consensus" and, thus included in the IPCC reports that effect international policy,
"Dr Lal said: ‘We knew the WWF report with the 2035 date was “grey literature” [material not published in a peer-reviewed journal]. But it was never picked up by any of the authors in our working group, nor by any of the more than 500 external reviewers, by the governments to which it was sent, or by the final IPCC review editors.’ In fact, the 2035 melting date seems to have been plucked from thin air."How is this possible? And although the article does report that some people questioned this, the decision-makers ignored these concerns, so much so that:
"...Hayley Fowler of Newcastle University, suggested that their draft did not mention that Himalayan glaciers in the Karakoram range are growing rapidly, citing a paper published in the influential journal Nature. In their response, the IPCC authors said, bizarrely, that they were ‘unable to get hold of the suggested references’, but would ‘consider’ this in their final version. They failed to do so."How is it that they could not get a copy of Nature journal! Again, a political ideology valued above the science. And the Alarmists wonder why we are skeptics.