re: #490 Charles

And this is the only WWF claim that’s been questioned. If you have something showing other mistaken claims, please post links.

Another major newspaper The Express has published additional mistaken claims.

Bogus Flood Claims Fuel Warming ‘Lies’

By Padraic Flanagan

THE world’s leading climate change body was plunged into fresh controversy yesterday for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in hurricanes and floods.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based its claims on an unpublished and unverified report.

But it then ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link was too weak, it was claimed.

The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they acknowledged that the evidence was not strong enough.

The latest criticism comes after the IPCC was forced to retract claims that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. It was claimed yesterday that the IPCC’s controversial head, Rajendra Pachauri, used the claims to win taxpayer-funded grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

They followed the same pattern:

But the paper on which the IPCC based its claim, written in 2006 by a disaster impacts expert, had not been scientifically scrutinised at the time the body issued its report.

By the time it was published in 2008 it carried a warning: “We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses.” Despite this change, the IPCC did not issue a clarification ahead of the Copenhagen summit.