IPCC Global Warming Report Draws Criticism
Exxon-funded Fraser Institute Offers Its Own Take on the UN Report that Blames Human Activity for Global Warming
The "Independent Summary" is written in response to claims made by the IPCC that human activity is to blame for increasing global warming, and the subsequent sea level rise that will occur when more and more of the polar ice caps proceed to melt due to increased temperatures (ipcc.ch). The IPCC report estimates that temperature could rise as much as six degrees Celsius (11.5 degrees Fahrenheit), and that sea level could rise as much as 20 centimeters.
The Fraser Institute claims that the "Independent Summary" was needed as the IPCC report was written by nameless bureaucrats, and not scientists. Per the Fraser Institute's press release on their website regarding the Independent Summary, the IPCC's "message is often obscured" by the lack of scientific writers and that there is no compelling evidence of "dangerous or unprecedented changes."
The "Independent Summary" was written by 10 authors and coordinated by Ross McKitrick. McKitrick is an economist that has a long history of writing against the existence of global warming (http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/ross.html). Another author, William Kininmonth, is linked to an anti-climate change group that was founded by a uranium-mining company, and has never published a peer-reviewed article on climate change in a science journal, according to research done by ExxonSecrets.org.
The Fraser Institute is based in Vancouver, Canada, and is linked to ExxonMobil and its Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil. Since 1998, the Fraser Institute has received nearly $120,000 from ExxonMobil (ExxonSecrets.org). Another Exxon-funded think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, has recently been criticized after a story broke in the London Guardian for offering scientists $10,000 to write essays for a new book that contests that climate change is human-induced, and the admitted author of the letter, Kenneth Green, worked for the Fraser Institute and according to the Institute's 2005 annual report, left to pursue other opportunities. The American Enterprise Institute has received more than $1.6 million according to ExxonSecrets.org, which determined the figure from Exxon's annual reports.
Contrary to the Fraser Institute's claims that no scientists wrote the IPCC's Fourth Assessment, contributing authors to the IPCC report include a climate Analysis Expert from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and an atmospheric physicist from France's National Center for Scientific Research, according to the IPCC website. All in all, over 150 scientists are listed on the IPCC website as being invited to work on the Fourth Assessment's Working Group I alone. There are an additional two working groups, with similar numbers of scientists and policy analysts listed.
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- The Fraser Institute has published their "Independent Summary for Policymakers," a response to the IPCC Fourth Assessment.
- The Fraser Institute has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
- Another Exxon-funded group has recently been found to have offered money to scientists to deny global warming.
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Post a CommentAnother author of the Summary is Richard C.J. Somerville, a California professor whose mind is already made up, who wrote his alarmist views rather than the science into the Summary. Nice try, Alex, but you really don't know what you're talking about.
The MSM always seems to miss this little tidbit about global warming. If you plot the actual temperatures from the climate stations from all over the globe, it actually shows that the earth is.....COOLING! But CRU, NASA and NOAA say that the data needs to be adjusted for different factors and they use their computer code to plot the data more to their liking. After the pro-global-warming people get done manipulating the data to fit their results, then, and only then, does the data show the warming.
Do those who believe in AGW actually believe that their is no money behind the reports that global warming is caused by man? Currently dollars are spent to the tune of 99-1 on pro-warming research. Its funny how the religion of global warming are the first to say that those who doubt man's affect on climate are being funded by oil companies.Because in fact, reports that are Pro GW are being funded by either those with interests in carbon trading or those who stand to lose billions if global warming is not true. Newsflash for the Cult of AGW, Pro-AGW research is never done for free. There are companies out there willing to pay billions to make domestic policy favor their companies. And they will silence any critics while fudging scientific data and not allowing anyone to review their material. They just tell us its necessary to transfer trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to warlords and dictators in order to save the world. Oh....and China doesn't have to abide by the rules either.
So your whining about an oil company giving research money to people to respond to the "Mann made global warming"
It seems to me they have a vested intrest in disputing MANN'S global warming. It sounds like you're saying that this should be a one sided debate with no disention.Myself I like to know the facts not just the convienent facts so many politicians and pundints want us to here I'd like to see all the raw data released so others could confirm or deny the facts about global warming reveiwed before a cap and trade tax is enacted!
So the Frasier Institute is funded by Exxon. The funding we need to worry about is government funding.
AAAAAAHHHHHH! We are all dying AAAAAhhhh!
PBS is also funded by ExxonMobil
There's a decades old technology employed called air separators. These things actually separate air particles by literally stripping them from thin air. You see the results as gas cylinders used in manufacturing around the world. So separate the C02 (or whatever the global warming particle of the week is) and then use it to fuel the air separators. 'Problem' solved.