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More flaws emerge in climate alarms

* Jonathan Leake
* From: The Australian
* February 01, 2010 12:00AM

A STARTLING report by the UN climate watchdog that global warming might
wipe out 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest was based on an
unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had no scientific
expertise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark
report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swaths of the
rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure
group, which was written by two green activists. They had based their
"research" on a study published in the science journal Nature, which did
not assess rainfall but looked at the impact on the forest of human
activity such as logging and burning. WWF said on Saturday it was
launching an internal inquiry into the study.
The IPCC has been put on the defensive as well over its claims that
climate change may be increasing the severity and frequency of natural
disasters such as hurricanes and floods.IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri
was fighting to keep his job over the weekend after a barrage of
criticism. Scientists fear the controversies will be used by climate
change sceptics to sway public opinion to ignore global warming - even
though the fundamental science, that greenhouse gases can heat the world,
remains strong.

Comment:
The idea of using a CO2 carbon tax and carbon sinks is shown to not
increase the effect any further, as a window exists where further CO2 does
not lead to increased planet heating. We have already reached this level.
It may even create the effect that vegetation will grow faster, creating
cooling areas. So trees and grasses and all manner of vegetation will grow
better. Ask anyone with a commercial greenhouse what the benefits of
increasing hothouse CO2 has and you will get the idea.
The ocean will certainly be the first to benefit (if that's the word) from
increased CO2 as most of the worlds CO2 is stored and used there (as well)
by vegetation.

Looks like the enquiry is going to replace a few dogged scientists.
Didnt they want their research flaws exposed?

Get over it! Scientists will write whatever you want if it fills their bank
account!