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All you Neanderthals in the Global Warming Denier crowd prepare to get socked directly on your square, protruding foreheads.

I’m sorry, not global warming. That got revised to “climate change” after it became clear the world had inconveniently stopped warming. Planet earth has not cooperated with the enlightened ones’ temperature increase models for about 15 years now.

The IPCC Is Pretty Much Dead Wrong | Cato @ Liberty

As the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) nears completion of its Fifth Assessment Report, it is becoming obvious that not only is the report going to obsolete on the day that it is released, but that it will be dead wrong as well.

We have discussed the implications of the IPCC’s failure to adequately ingest new literature—a failure that results partially from the cumbersome IPCC process and partly because the IPCC doesn’t want to include some findings that run counter to its storylines. The major implication being, of course, that the IPCC reports mislead policymakers around the world, which has a trickle-down effect on all of us who are subject to any resulting policies.

What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up | UK | News | Daily Express

Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climate scientist, said it was possible that the report's authors were feeling pressured to address the warming slowdown because it's received so much attention recently.

"I think a lot of the interest in this topic in the science community has been triggered by the public debate about it," said Mr Rahmstorf, who was a reviewer for the report's chapter on sea levels.