Measurements made by means of satellites show no global warming but a cooling of 0.13☌ between 19. Most members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that current climate models do not accurately portray the atmosphere-ocean system. poses a challenge for formulating consistent and credible climate change policies that. Policymaking should be guided by proved fact, not speculation. disparity between expert and lay conceptions of climate change. I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.” 4 If there is a credible institutional process for selecting the target. World Politics rests on science and expertise for maintaining a functioning multilateral sys- tem of governance. This led Dr Frederick Seitz, former head of the United States National Academy of Sciences, to write, “In more than sixty years as a member of the American scientific community. Expert Group on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. What happened was that the policymakers’ summary (which became the “take home message” for politicians) altered the conclusions of the scientists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme to assess climate change based on the latest science. 3 The original draft document did not say this. McMichael and Haines quote the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is widely believed to “prove” that climate change induced by humans has occurred. the Climate Resilience Bonds Expert Group Members: Isabelle Laurent (EBRD). The credibility depends on whether the science is seen as adequate and. We do not agree.” 2 Those who have signed the letter represent the overwhelming majority of climate change scientists in the United States, of whom there are about 60. for climate change solutions, to accelerate a global transition to a. Climate change decision-making has emerged in recent decades as an area of. They are based on the unsupported assumption that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuel and requires immediate action. “The policy initiatives derive from highly uncertain scientific theories. A letter signed by over 50 leading members of the American Meteorological Society warned about the policies promoted by environmental pressure groups. Whether most scientists outside climatology believe that global warming is happening is less relevant than whether the climatologists do.
1 In his editorial Smith asserts, “virtually all scientists agree that global warming is happening.” Global warming is now joining the list of “what everyone knows.” Editor-The apocalyptic tone that Smith adopted in relation to the environment bears little relation to reality.
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