Global Warming: The BBC finally admit that the debate is NOT over!

[birdie1971]

Amazing. The BBC have finally admitted that Global Warming may not be caused by humans after all. After years and years of insisting that “the debate is over”, we now get this story...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm

Does this signify a new era where the general public will finally be given some hard facts about this issue as opposed to the highy dubious and politically motivated pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change [IPCC]?

[jno]

there's an analysis of the BBC story here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/oct/19/bbc-climate-change-denial-propaganda

That's if you really do want a debate, of course. If you just want allegations that suit the ideas you already have, don't bother clicking on it.

[birdie1971]

Jno -

Are you aware that Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra has said on 7th February 2010, that the IPCC needs to “tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.”?

Effectively, our own Government is now admitting that at least some of the IPCC's report is misleading or incorrect. The IPCC has recently had to admit that it made a huge mistake by incorrectly claiming that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

http://www.timesonlin...nt/article7017907.ece


I've read the IPCC's 2007 report. It is replete with brilliant science carried out by equally brilliant scientists. Unfortunately it's conclusions and summaries are written by reviewers and bureaucrats. Anyone who has read this document from cover to cover will tell you that the summaries often do not match the conclusions drawn by the very scientists carrying out the research. In the bureaucratically worded summaries, the dangers are exaggerated without any evidence to support them and carefully constructed, scientific cautiousness is transformed into cast-iron truth.