Nice fail Judah On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's not true, and it goes to the heart of why I have objected to the > "science" from the start. They specifically put the glacier claim in to > influence policy, and that admission taints everything the IPCC has done: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html > > The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that > Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was > included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. > > Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report > by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on > peer-reviewed scientific research. > > In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead > author of the reports chapter on Asia, said: It related to several > countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can > highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage > them to take some concrete action. > > It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in. > > > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Judah Mc wrote: > >> >> No one involved said it was put in the IPCC as a known lie nor was it >> an attempt to influence politicians. It didn't even make it into any >> of the summary documents for decision makers.
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