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Kuhn cited a survey done six months ago by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization of people in the seven states that have a stake in Colorado River water, including Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, California and Nevada.

The survey asked residents of those states, “Is climate change an established reality or an unproven myth?”

People in Colorado are split 47 percent to 47 percent on the question.

In Wyoming, only 35 percent of people think climate change is “an established reality,” while 62 percent of Californians think it is.

Seventy-four percent of Democrats in those seven states think climate change is a reality, but only 25 percent of Republicans do, the survey found.

 ‘Opportunity to avoid catastrophic climate change is in your hands,’ UN SG tells world leaders at climate summit

R.K. PACHAURI, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he was speaking for the world's scientific community, which in November 2007 completed the Panel's fourth Assessment Report, a collective effort of nearly 4,000 of the world's best specialists working for more than five years. The uniqueness of that mammoth exercise was that all Governments of the world approved the report and had full ownership of it contents.

YouTube - UN Climate Change - IPCC Dr. Pachauri [now claims the IPCC's 4th assessment report was a "collective effort of almost 4,000 of the world's best specialists working tirelessly over five years"]

Flashback: UN Climate Agency’s implication that 2,500 scientist reviewers agree is a deception

Their comments indicate that at most five independent scientist reviewers agree with this, likely the most important statement of the UN climate reports released this year.

Yet in Saturday’s presentation, IPCC Chairman Dr. R K Pachauri included a slide in which he listed “+2500 scientific expert reviewers” implying that this group agree with the report’s conclusions.

“We now know that this is a deception,” explains Dr. Tim Ball. “The IPCC owe it to the world to explain what these numbers really mean and who, among their experts agree with their conclusions and who don’t. Otherwise, their credibility, and the public’s trust of science in general, will be even further eroded.”