IPCC science not sacrosanct
letter blog published in The Australian Online, 12 June 2009
ALEX Gardner (Letters, 11/6) suggests Senator Fielding examine reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to learn about the threat from anthropogenic warming. However, many expert scientists disagree with the IPCC view that increasing emissions of carbon dioxide cause global warming. They (and others) can point to three periods, covering 56 of the past 130 years or so, when temperatures fell or did not increase. Thus, IPCC claims that temperatures will increase as CO2 emissions do didn’t work for almost half the time of the supposedly critical period proving the claims.
Relevant here is the long history of similar claimed climatic change/environmental threats by scientists that have turned out to be totally false. There is an unanswerable case for supporting Fielding’s proposal for an independent inquiry into the supposed science used in IPCC reports.
Des Moore
South Yarra, Vic