The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics'
claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been
exaggerated.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it was
"firmly" standing by findings that a rise in the use of greenhouse
gases was a factor.
It was responding to a row over the reliability of data from East
Anglia University's Climatic Research Unit
Leaked e-mail exchanges prompted claims that data had been
manipulated.
Last month, hundreds of messages between scientists at the unit and
their peers around the world were put on the internet along with other
documents.
Some observers alleged one of the e-mails suggested head of the unit
Professor Phil Jones wanted certain papers excluded from the UN's next
major assessment of climate science.
"The body of evidence is the result of the careful and painstaking
work of hundreds of scientists worldwide" - Professor Thomas Stocker,
IPCC working group 1 co-chairman
Professor Jones, who denies this was his intention, has stood down
from his post while an independent inquiry takes place.
In a statement, Professor Thomas Stocker, co-chairman of the IPCC's
working group 1, condemned the act of posting the private e-mails on
the internet, but avoided commenting on their content.
He went on to point to a key finding that states: "The warming in the
climate system is unequivocal.
"[It] is based on measurements made by many independent institutions
worldwide that demonstrate significant changes on land, in the
atmosphere, the ocean and in the ice-covered areas of the Earth.
"Through further independent scientific work involving statistical
methods and a range of different climate models, these changes have
been detected as significant deviations from natural climate
variability and have been attributed to the increase of greenhouse
gases."
He added: "The body of evidence is the result of the careful and
painstaking work of hundreds of scientists worldwide.
"There is an anti-science group, there is a flat Earth group, if I may
say so, over the scientific evidence for climate change" - Gordon
Brown, Prime Minister
"The internal consistency from multiple lines of evidence strongly
supports the work of the scientific community, including those
individuals singled out in these e-mail exchanges."
The row comes ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit which starts on
Monday.
Earlier, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband told the BBC he would be
"very surprised" if there had been any wrongdoing on the part of the
East Anglia University scientists.
"We're in a moment when the world is about to make some big political
decisions," he said.
"And there will be people who don't want the world to make those big
decisions and they are trying to use this in part to say somehow this
is all in doubt and perhaps we should put the whole thing off.
"Well, I just think they're wrong about that."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the scientific evidence was "very
clear" and called doubters a "flat Earth group".
He said: "There is an anti-change group. There is an anti-reform
group. There is an anti-science group, there is a flat Earth group, if
I may say so, over the scientific evidence for climate change."
'Open and transparent'
Meanwhile, the Met Office said it would publish all the data from
weather stations worldwide, which it said proved climate change was
caused by humans.
Its database is a main source of analysis for the IPCC.
It has written to 188 countries for permission to publish the
material, dating back 160 years from more than 1,000 weather stations.
John Mitchell, head of climate science at the Met Office, said the
evidence for man-made global warming was overwhelming - and the data
would show that.
"So this is not an issue of whether we are confident or not in the
figures for the trend in global warming, it's more about being open
and transparent," he told the BBC.
The Met Office said it had already planned to publish the material
long before the row and denied reports that government ministers had
tried to block the publication.
> UN hits back at climate sceptics
Juan copies and pastes press releases good enough to work at the NYT.
<Translation: Shit, I don't have anything to parrot from Fixed News so
let me just post the first bullshit line that comes across my feeble
brain.> LMAO!
You post press releases, and I'm the parrot, ok.
Shit, Pudge, we know you'd parrot anything the UN cooked up if it
somehow targeted the Big Satan, you're not that hard to see through.
> You post press releases, and I'm the parrot, ok.
Nah, you just don't have anything substantial to say about anything
other than your whinings. Pathetic. But that's you, the foolish
tool. :)
> On Dec 5, 6:08�pm, Al <albert.finney...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You post press releases, and I'm the parrot, ok.
>
> Nah, you just don't have anything substantial to say about anything
> other than your whinings.
About 80% of your postings which aren't press releases are about me. But
you're not like, obsessed and defensive or anything, little Stasi dude.
Did the IRS thank you for the tip? LOL.
Oh, how touching to hear you read everything I post, and even keep
statistics. Didn't know you cared so much.
And you still think I don't own ya, eh? LMAO! Back of the bus! Git!
LOL!
> On Dec 5, 7:45�pm, Al <albert.finney...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > About 80% of your postings which aren't press releases are about me..
>
> Oh, how touching to hear you read everything I post, and even keep
> statistics. Didn't know you cared so much.
C'mon Pudge, you've tracked my every move for years, created an entire
fantasy backstory to hide behind, drove by my house, found my ex-wife's
name in the phone book to post repeatedly looked up all you could on my
divorce, and LOL, claim to have turned me into the IRS because of an
inheritence... the list goes on. You've been obsessed for fucking
*years*.
Project much, Puge?
> And you still think I don't own ya, eh? LMAO! Back of the bus! Git!
> LO
You own me like a junkie owns heroin, Pudge. You're a kook.
Whatever you say, Jeffy.
Jeffy loves lard asses.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friend...
That's his household bovine, Lisa. We're not talking lard here, we're
talking about a Crisco factory
stuffed inside size "Moo!" Texas jeans! ROFLMAO!
And check out this one! Bessie Moo can barely get her thighs inside a
damn beach lounging chair!
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friend...
Oh man, that's disgusting! Look at all that cellulitis SPILLING over
the edge of the chair like a vat of spilled whale blubber! No wonder
she didn't go into the water, you'd see the sharks coming for miles
around! LUNCH! hahahahahahaha!!!
Whine, whine, whine away, rolling down the streeeeettt... LOL!
> You own me like a junkie owns heroin, Pudge. You're a kook.
You go, chewtoy. :)
Jeffy loves lard asses.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friend...
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friend...
Maybe it's better that the account is gone. I don't think I could take
looking at some fat stanky, buttugly Texas bitch.
How's the divorce coming , fatboi?
http://www.itpreport.com/upload/Juan_Jimenez_200x150.jpg
Sheesh, even a Polack dumped your lard ass...
You're right, Jeffy.
It's prolly not your real name. Or your house there on Spanish Trail. No
fucking way that a unemployed social security collecting dish washer boy
like you end up in a house like that!
lol
You're right, Jeffy.