More Exaggerated Climate Change Claims Causing Backlash as More Are Debunked
The Times UK online reports on more potential errors IPCC Synthesis Report to government leaders
The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change.
This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.
The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in the IPCC reports.
Last weekend, the Telegraph revealed that the panel had based claims about disappearing mountain ice on anecdotal evidence in a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
And on Friday, it emerged that the…
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