Mockery of Science

The web site ICECAP only recently had opportunity, as have we science-friendly people, to review scientists’ comments on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report that was used as an ultimate authorization for turning up the volume on erroneous politicizations of global warming.

Some of us novices, who hover around every reference by scientists at ICECAP, can only suspect the scientific brotherhoods that added their signatures to the report made a mockery of what we science friendlies presumed science to be in the first place.

One prize-winning global warming mockumentary won global applause by Earthlings whose imaginations are too conveniently captured by insinuations of fear. Our global sisters and brothers, and USA residents in particular, are experiencing exaggerated and inconvenient crises, fused with melodramatic fear mongering. We are afraid of the wrong things. It appears our species lives in a trance with the ever ready assistance of journalists and reporters; their editors and programmers; actors and film makers; all together praising bankers’ and governments’ ingratiating politicians.

The IPCC report, proclaimed in front of the assembled United Nations in February, 2007, supposedly documented unanimity for scientific alarm regarding planetary global warming. The report continues to be diplomatically debunked by scientists’ reviews and comments, and some science bloggers insist the report shows a mockery of science has occurred. One scientist’s comment…

We’ve been led to believe that the review was an extensive process undertaken by diligent experts from virtually every country and that if those experts were not unanimous then they were very close to it. It is very disappointing to discover that despite the crucial nature of the report the reality [of the report and climate change] is very different. Brackets are mine. Refer ICECAP dot us.

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