07 February 2007

Global Ear-Warming

I had thought the politicians and bureaucrats -- not the scientists, mind you -- who write up the scary summary to the infamous IPCC report might have a little bit of a problem with misleading the public.

You know, especially after the scientists involved complained publicly that their work was being misrepresented.
In June 1996, Dr. Frederick Seitz, past-president of the National Academy of Sciences and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, wrote with regard to the 1995 IPCC report: "I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report."

He continued: "This report is not what it appears to be -- it is not the version approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page."
I had foolishly imagined that somebody's ears would be burning.

Apparently though, much like abandoning newborn babies in the middle of a prairie winter... there is no such thing as shame anymore.

And no such thing as truth.

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