Hi Tom
I'm just beginning to engage in this thread that's been running for a
few days now.
Do you have evidence or can you refer to credible sources that
corroborate the statements you made below. The point I'm trying to get
hold of is not whether there's political bias in the IPCC's work, that
is relatively easy to substantiate. But whether it was a deliberate and
intended act by some actors to slant the the scientific analysis in a
particular way. If it was, who were these actors, when did they do
this, how did they do it, how was it sustained, and so on.
The IPCC process involves thousands of scientists. My understanding is
that the IPCC is purely a review body and does not undertake any primary
research itself, although it may provoke research in areas that it
regards as worthy of further investigation. I'm reluctant to posit a
conspiracy theory in which this whole process has been subverted by dark
forces, but if that's what's being proposed, it would be helpful to have
some evidence of it.
We know that the SPMs are subjected to considerable political editing.
While this might impact the way that the media report the findings,
those that take the trouble to engage with the detail often find it to
be a mine of really useful information and references to the original
research.
In the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, I am tempted to
regard the IPCC's considerable shortcomings as emergent properties of
its structure and the sociopolitical context in which it is operating,
and not the result of some malevolent cabal of controllers.
But if you know something different, please share.
Regards
Robert
On 16/03/2023 17:00, Tom Goreau wrote:
IPCC was given a _political_ mission, make projections what will
happen for a decade or two while governments are in power, not a
_scientific_ mission to determine what the actual impacts would be to
the planet and humanity afterwards (warming in the pipeline).
That flawed time scale was deliberately built by governments into
IPCC’s mandate at the start, IPCC was intentionally _designed_ to
underestimate the problem, and any potential liabilities.
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