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"We Got It Wrong" says the IPCC
[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]
Previously, those blamed [all of us] for natural climate change have endured demonising headlines that have had an increasingly alarmist approach:
"It's happening"
"It's very bad"
"It's worse than we thought"
"It's worse than the previous worst"
usually accompanied by photos of car exhaust pipes visibly emitting steam, whilst ignoring areas of the world where ice packs have actually increased and new research which is suggesting that the rush to plant even more trees, under the banner of carbon exchange, is actually increasing the problem in some areas of the plant.
Now, as motorists - particularly those with holiday flight bookings - feel the pinch of Gordon Brown's statement, with mobility tax increases claimed to be based on a sexed up eco-dossier from the gone-and-forgotten Stern Report, the IPCC now concedes (1) that mankind's impact on climate change "isn't as bad as we thought".
In fact, as the IPCC and other scientists have previously acknowledged there is no human signal in the data above the noise of natural variation (2).
The only place human global warming can be found is in inadequate and disreputable computer climate models.
Statements that 'the science is settled' are contrary to both the actual data and the scientific process.
ABD Environment Spokesman Ben Adams commented: "This is the start of a long-winded apology that will run and run.
After Stern's recent departure from the scene of the clime, perhaps Mr Brown is also re-thinking the role being offered to Al Gore - so we might yet see a flood, of discredited alarmists."
"With significant climate cooling widely expected from about 2012 (3) there's plenty of time for the climb-down to minimise the egg on politicians' faces.
Before then, since man-made climate change is being officially reduced, we expect fuel duty and all King Canute mobility taxes to be officially reduced as well.
After all, that was the reason for recent increases, wasn't it.
Given the severe and politically unexpected backlash against Brown's recent dash for cash, which only the most gullible greens believe to be environmentally motivated, now would be a good time."
Additionally, we have to wait and see what the courts have to say if the airlines and holiday companies go ahead with their threat to take the chancellor to court over a possibly illegal tax because it is being applied retrospectively.
(1) Here
(2) Here
(3) Here and Here and Here
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