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The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney

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Andrew

Posted: Jun 15 2010, 02:05 PM

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The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider

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Claims such as �2,500 of the world�s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate� are disingenuous. That particular consensus judgement, as are many others in the IPCC reports, is reached by only a few dozen experts.

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Posted: Jun 15 2010, 07:39 PM

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The consensus-bangers are sweating now. The myths of global warming catastrophe are being punctured one by one.

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...as Yearley (2009) explains, IPCC consensus-making is an exercise in collective judgement about subjective (or Bayesian) likelihoods in areas of uncertain knowledge.

That's beautifully precise. If you want the bullet-point version, how about this: a consensus is subjective. Also, this "consensus" went way beyond subjective... it was exaggerated, artificial, oversimplified, and misleading. Like the article said... phoney.

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Consensus-making in the IPCC has been largely driven by the desire to communicate climate science coherently to a wide spectrum of policy users � �to construct knowledge� (Weingart, 1999) - but in so doing communicating uncertainties have been down-played (van der Sluijs, 1998).

I think it would be more accurate to say: "Consensus-making in the IPCC has largely been driven by the desire OF A FEW PEOPLE to communicate THEIR OPINION of climate science aggressively to a wide spectrum of politicians and journalists--'to distort knowledge'."

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