Another climate change blunder

Leading climate change scientists have been caught out again – first, it was revealed that their claims that catastrophic melting of some glaciers would see them disappear by 2010 were based on speculation not fact; Now it has been revealed that their claim that rising temperatures has been causing an increased number of natural disasters is also not hard science.

The IPCC made a statement in 2007 claiming that rising temperatures were causing a larger number of natural disasters – such as hurricanes and floods. It has now emerged that the unpublished report on which they based their statement had not actually been peer-reviewed.

Worse still, the report’s author has withdrawn his claim stating that there is not enough evidence to link global warming with an increase in the number of natural disasters and has branded the use of his data as ‘completely misleading.’

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