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Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), based on computer modeling
that has been slammed by many independent climatologists around the world as lacking
any scientific validity or credibility," he said. "People generally seem not to be aware that
the UN defines ‗climate change' as only the effects of climate that result from human
activity. It ignores the natural drivers that have governed the global climate for millions of
years past. For reasons that have everything to do with politics and nothing to do with
science or meteorological observations and records, the present Government committed
New Zealand to the Kyoto Protocol that even its most ardent supporters admit will not
reduce global warming," McShane asserted. "What Kyoto will do, like the sale of
indulgences in the Middle Ages, is make people and organizations pay for emissions of
carbon dioxide by buying credits from countries like Russia that have vast tracts of forested
land," he concluded. (LINK)
Anthropologist Dr. Benny Peiser of the Faculty of Science of Liverpool John Moores
University in the UK who has published peer-reviewed studies, debunked a 2004 study
published in Science which Gore cited in his movie. The study examined 928 peerreviewed
studies and found a virtual 100% consensus on man-made global warming. But
Peiser's own analysis found that the study's "entire argument is flawed as the whole ISI data
set includes just 13 abstracts (less than 2%) that explicitly endorse what [the author] has
called the 'consensus view.'" "In fact, the vast majority of abstracts do not mention
anthropogenic climate change," Peiser added. (LINK) Peiser, who edits a climate change
Internet newsletter, has also noted that the media ignores the scientists and studies that cast
doubt on climate alarmism. "Hardly a week goes by without a new research paper that
questions part or even some basics of climate change theory," Peiser told the New York
Times on March 13, 2007. (LINK) Peiser noted how science has been overtaken with an
"apocalyptic" view of the future climate. "Not since the apocalyptic consensus of the
Middle Ages has the prognostication of impending doom and global catastrophe on the
basis of mathematical modeling been as widely accepted as today," Peiser noted in an April
18, 2007 presentation to European Parliament on climate change. "Ironically, these
apocalyptic predictions of the future are politically sanctioned at the same time as a
growing number of scientists are recognizing that environmental and economic computer
modeling of an inherently unpredictable future is illogical and futile," Peiser said. "Over
the last 10 years, the editors of the world's leading science journals such as Science and
Nature as well as popular science magazines such as Scientific American and New
Scientist have publicly advocated drastic policies to curb CO2 emissions. At the same time,
they have publicly attacked scientists skeptical of the climate consensus," Peiser noted.
(LINK)
Atmospheric scientist and hurricane expert Dr. Christopher W. Landsea NOAA's
National Hurricane Center who served as a UN IPCC as both an author and a
reviewer and has published numerous peer-reviewed research noted that recent
hurricane activity is not linked to man-made factors. According to a February 23, 2007
article in Myrtle Beach Online, Landsea explained that "the 1926-1935 period was worse
for hurricanes than the past 10 years and 1900-1905 was almost as bad." Landsea asserted
that it is therefore not true that there is a current trend of more and stronger hurricanes. "It's
not a trend, it's a cycle: 20-45 years quiet, 20-45 years busy," Landsea said. He did say that
a warming world would only make hurricanes "5 percent stronger 100 years from now. We
can't measure it if it's that small." The article said Landsea blamed Gore's An Inconvenient
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