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IS THERE HOPE FOR CREATION?

Submitted by amalan on Sat, 01/25/2020 - 13:10

In 2010, a learned professor at the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania cross-examined the case for global warming argued by what he called ‘the climate establishment’ led by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He charged that the IPCC and ‘the climate establishment’ showed ‘a systematic tendency … to oversell what is actually known about climate change while concealing fundamental uncertainties and open questions regarding many of the key processes involved in climate change’. He seemed to argue that ‘virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail[s] to stand up to scrutiny’.

Such views were not isolated. Just ahead of the UN conference on climate change in Cancun, Mexico 2010, a special report, the so-called ‘Consensus Buster’, claimed that ‘More than 1000 international scientists dissent over man-made global warming claims’. The 321-page special report was supposed to ‘further chill UN Climate Summit in Cancun’. Climate skeptics and deniers who produced the report argued that the IPCC reports have (a) distorted the scientific evidence, (b) induced ‘climate fear’, and (c) caused a scandal in the climate science community referred to as ‘Climategate’.

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