Monday, November 19, 2007

"IPCC and Policy Options: To Open Up or Close Down?"

See this Prometheus blog post.

Excerpts:
With the release of the IPCC AR4 Synthesis report last week, the IPCC made a dramatic statement that has thus far escaped notice. The IPCC has endorsed the Kyoto Protocol process, at once discarding its fig leaf of being "policy neutral" and putting its scientific authority on the line by supporting a policy approach that many people think simply cannot work.
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The more that the IPCC resembles an advocacy group with a narrow political agenda tied to the Kyoto Protocol, the more it risks its credibility, legitimacy, and ultimately, its sustainability.

1 comment:

10ksnooker said...

Follow the money. If there was no alarmist policy prescription would there be no need for the IPCC. Sounds a little self serving to me, sort of like the way science worked in the old Soviet Union, and for the same purpose.

The whole notion of the UN-IPCC is fatally flawed. If the science were obvious it would need no advocacy, the scientifc community would solve the problem and the threories would stand on their own -- As has been the way over the ages with countless science discoveries and theories. Since the science is not settled, known, or obvious, the need for advocates is critical and becoming even more so as more and more figure out the 'taxes for weather control' scheme of these control freak socialists.

Did you see recently Brazil had a big oil find, billions of barrels, and think it's a nation changing event for them. Meanwhile, the USA is building windmills --- To what end?