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Two Rather Strange Revelations

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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According to Mail Online, a scientist that was or is involved in the glacier melting pot,  now says he knew the data stating that the Himalayan glaciers would be melted by 2035 was false.  As if knowing the information was false wasn’t bad enough, he added this revelation:

“The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.” (emphasis added)

“Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.”

Of course this revelation adds fuel to the bonfire surrounding other recent allegations and does nothing to gain adherents to the claim for anthropological caused climate change or global warming.  While it is easy to criticize this kind of  activity as stupid and self-serving, it is also easy to see it as fraud on world citizens.

It seems that some skeptics felt they were right to doubt the claim and had started investigating the possibility some time back:

” Professor Graham Cogley, a glacier expert at Trent University in Canada, who began to raise doubts in scientific circles last year, said the claim multiplies the rate at which glaciers have been seen to melt by a factor of about 25.”

The rest of the Mail Online article  can be seen here.

Still another outing for doubting was recently published.  It does not involve a finding of more funny stuff or fraud involving climate change.  It involves a Pew Research Center finding that global warming is dragging the tail end of  Americans’ concerns for 2010.  Global warming stands at 28 % overall as a concern, but last year it stood at 60%  according to the Pew’s published information.  The report notes that other concerns show little change from 2009.
The report is quite long and revealing and it is provided here for those who wish to delve deeper into the thoughts and concerns of their fellow citizens.

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