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The UN IPCC '2500 Scientists' Hoax

By jennifer
June 30, 2008

It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.”

But it’s not true. And, for the first time ever, the public can now see the extent to which they have been misled. As lies go, it’s a whopper. Here’s the real situation.

Continue reading 'The UN climate change numbers hoax' over at OLO.

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Comments

  1. Will someone explain to poor old Ender that it was the IPCC that started the numbers game with their specific mention of 2500 scientists. And the facts now become clear that most of those 2500 didn't do ANY job at all so it would not be a very big ask to do a "better job" as he demands of us.

    Get back under the rock, Ender, the slime moulds are getting lonely.

  2. Brian, I asked the same question as to why On Line Opinion was carrying a 6 month old story. Apparently we found out late in the day, so my editor was already more or less committed to it. However, thinking about it a little longer, like Mondo, I hadn't seen it covered in Australia so it went up.

    It's sparked some fireworks and Clive Hamilton has submitted a piece which we will publish later this week, to which I will reply. He thinks it represents the "demise" of On Line Opinion. I beg to differ.

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