"Christy Versus Parry"

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At last, the BBC Online News Website is providing some belated balance in the ‘global warming’ debate.

Today, it hosts two contrasting viewpoints on the work of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). I recommend that you read them both (makes a change from worrying about spoofs).

An excerpt from Christy's piece:

At an IPCC Lead Authors' meeting in New Zealand, I well remember a conversation over lunch with three Europeans, unknown to me but who served as authors on other chapters. I sat at their table because it was convenient.

After introducing myself, I sat in silence as their discussion continued, which boiled down to this: "We must write this report so strongly that it will convince the US to sign the Kyoto Protocol."

Politics, at least for a few of the Lead Authors, was very much part and parcel of the process.

And, while the 2001 report was being written, Dr Robert Watson, IPCC Chair at the time, testified to the US Senate in 2000 adamantly advocating on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol, which even the journal Nature now reports is a failure.