January 23, 2010
IS ANYTHING IN "INCONVENIENT TRUTH" NOT A LIE?:
UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters (Jonathan Leake, 1/24/10, Times of London)
THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 23, 2010 6:54 PMIt based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.