January 31, 2010

Environment

And Then Fell the Rainforest Claim...

Justin Katz

Boy, when people finally start looking into the claims of climate alarmists, dominoes start to fall:

A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.

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

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their "research" on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning.

Look, they've been making environmental doomsday claims in cartoons and pushing "common knowledge" since I was a kid. There's a whole industry dependent upon the continued panic of people who don't pay much attention to the world around them.

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There is only one reason that guys join WWF and Greenpeace; the women.

Posted by: Warrington Faust at January 31, 2010 9:03 PM

"Look, they've been making environmental doomsday claims in cartoons and pushing "common knowledge" since I was a kid."

When my daughter was young enough for summer camp, they warned her not to eat McDonald's hamburgers. Mickey Dee was "destroying the rainforest".

In those days I used to ask "activists" which "rainforest" they were concerned with. They were shocked to learn that there was more than one. They thought the entire world depended on the Amazon.

Posted by: Warrington Faust at January 31, 2010 9:07 PM

And Gov Carcieri wants to build 350 wind turbines off Block Island, when a dirty, coal fired power plant in East Greenwich would produce MORE power at 1/3 the cost
say NIMBY

Posted by: Philipe at January 31, 2010 10:52 PM

This spoof of climate science may be of interest:

http://climaterealists.com/?id=4960

Posted by: Mr. Xyz at February 1, 2010 1:41 PM
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