Burt Rutan: "The 2,500 scientists from IPCC do not support the predictions of catastrophe...That is not a consensus at all, and never was."

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Worldwide funding for climate research increased by a factor of more than 30 since the early 1990s, all of the increase was driven by the false fear of climate disaster, Rutan said. The people who were really manipulating data falsely were rather small in number, Rutan found.

"The 2,500 scientists from IPCC do not support the predictions of catastrophe," he said. "That is not a consensus at all, and never was."

The actual 'consensus' is that nearly all scientists agree that the planet has warmed in the last 50 years and that at least some of that warming was due to human emissions. Only a tiny faction - acting out of greed - showed that the warming was dangerous and that stopping human CO2 emissions was a critical need, he said. Now, after 15 years of no global warming while human CO2 emissions continue to increase, there is no consensus that we risk catastrophe.

IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change established by two United Nations organizations in 1988. That was just four years before the first Rio Conference in 1992 when Agenda 21 was formulated.

Rutan thought he could use his findings to convince some global warming alarmists online but instead he was personally attacked with brutal name calling.

"I found out real quickly that with these people, it's their livelihood and it's like a religion to them," he said. "They don't look at the facts.

"They call us deniers and it's them that are denying the data."