A non-governmental international panel on climate change (NIPCC) comprising over 40,000 international scientists have challenged the findings of all the Four Assessment Reports (ARA 4) written by scientists attached to the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Lead by Dr Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist and Dr Craig Idso, founder for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change in the US, these scientists debunk all ARA4 claiming they have been written by a small group of “activist” scientists who are willing to bend backwards for professional and financial rewards.
Challenging all the major claims made in these reports, these scientists question the claim that rising global temperatures from mid-twentieth century have been due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. On the contrary, the NIPCC team attribute rising temperature to increased solar activity and speak about a solar-climate link and how small changes in solar activity manifest into larger climate effects.
Questioning the very foundations of the IPCC claims, they further assert, “the global warming hype has led to demands for unrealistic efficiency standards for cars, the creation of uneconomic wind and solar energy stations, the establishment of large production facilities for uneconomic biofuels, and the demand the electric companies purchase expensive power from so-called “renewable energy sources.”
Accusing the IPCC scientists of violating the rules of scientific forecasting, they debunk the fears that global warming results in more droughts, floods, hurricanes, storm surges and heat waves. They maintain the contrary that “weather would be less extreme in a warmer world.” Further contradicting that carbon dioxide induced global warming is harmful to human health, they refer to scientific literature which insists that global warming would actually reduce the number of lives lost to extreme conditions.
They also debunk the claim that warming in the twentieth century was unprecedented.
Temperature records show temperatures were warmer around the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago than they are today.
They also point out that glaciers around the world are continuously advancing and retreating and that the cumulative discharge of the world’s rivers remained statistically unchanged between 1951 and 2000. The IPCC’s claim that temperature rise will impact biodiversity, the NIPCC group believe, is erroneous and that the four key causes of bio-diversity extinction are huge asteroids striking the planet, human hunting, increasing agriculture and the introduction of alien species that destroy original habitation.
Nor are they willing to accept that climate change will contribute to the global burden of disease and premature deaths. On the contrary, the overwhelming weight of evidence shows that higher temperatures will play an indispensable role in making it possible to feed a growing global population without encroaching on natural ecosystems.