Skeptics claim 'smoking gun'

by Emily Inglis

Scientists and climatologists worldwide are supporting claims that climate change is non-existent.

Emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s top climate scientists emerged last week.  

The Guardian reported that the emails provide ‘smoking gun’ evidence that some climatologists had fraudulently manipulated data to support the view that climate change is real, and caused by mankind.

Scientists from the University of Oxford have claimed the predictions that climate change will lead to the extinction of hundreds of species ‘may be exaggerated’: “The evidence has been overplayed,” said Professor Kathy Willis, a long-term ecologist at the University of Oxford and lead author of the article.

She added: “Biodiversity forecasts have not taken into account the complexities of the landscape and underestimate the ability of plants and animals to adapt to change.”

Is it a lie?

Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute, blames the press for the fears about climate change.

He says: “Informed members of the media read those polls and know the global warming scare is over. Andrew Revkin, the reporter with the global warming beat at The New York Post, has for months lamented "the public’s waning interest in global warming."

The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman, does his best to revive public fear by urging experts to up their hype so the press will have scarier material to run.”

Recent television advertisements by the Climate Skeptic Party in Australia show data outlining recent trends that show no evidence of global warming. The ads say: “Local air temperatures have stayed flat since 1998…Global sea temperatures have declined since 2005…Global sea levels have remained stationary since 2006…We are being conned.”

A research paper by NASA employee Dr Ferenc Miskolczi said that greenhouse gases could not increase the Earth’s temperature further, disagreeing that CO2 emissions have any major effect.

The BBC weather centre website states: “Some experts believe it is impossible to be certain about how our climate will change as it can be unpredictable. They also believe the climate is supposed to change and it has done before.”

 

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