IPCC Insider Admits Climate Consensus Claim Was a Lie
By David Theroux on Jun 18, 2010
As reported by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post, prominent climate
scientist/alarmist Mike Hulme has now admitted that:
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and
public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on
manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate
scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that
claim was "only a few dozen experts," he states in a paper for Progress in
Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.
"Claims such as '2,500 of the world's leading scientists have reached a
consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the
climate' are disingenuous," the paper states unambiguously, adding that they
rendered "the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism."
Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences
at the University of East Anglia-the university of Climategate fame-is the
founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and one
of the UK's most prominent climate scientists. Among his many roles in the
climate change establishment, Hulme was the IPCC's co-ordinating Lead Author
for its chapter on "Climate scenario development" for its Third Assessment
Report and a contributing author of several other chapters.