Climate Change Advocates Fail Sniff Test : IPCC Report Questioned

The narrative isn't what's right or what's wrong with the climate, it's about forcing the population into a false premise that's based on false information to make climate change important enough that taxpayers will willingly pay what ever it takes to solve the 'problem' of green house gas.

It's the old stand by of the progressive socialists liberal democrats and their cohorts in the environmental community, it's not about the what's true, it's the 'seriousness of the charge' that matters. Pay no attention to the facts as they just confuse the narrative.

Global Warming Facts versus Claims
Source: Bjørn Lomborg, "Global Warming's Upside-Down Narrative," Project Syndicate, April 17, 2014.

April 23, 2014

Claims that tackling climate change would be cost-effective are nonsense, says Bjørn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Politicians routinely point to global warming as the world's greatest challenge, simultaneously promising that they can solve it with low-cost solutions.

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently called climate change the "greatest challenge of our generation," with catastrophe sure to ensue if the world fails to address the problem.
• In Europe, a 2006 report commissioned by the British government, the Stern Review, insisted that global warming damage was the equivalent of 5 percent to 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), but promised cures that would cost just 1 percent of GDP.
• And politicians have promised not just low costs to fix the problem, but an abundance of green jobs and energy security.

Unfortunately, this narrative is mostly wrong.

• The latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that global warming has slowed, even stopped, over the last 15 years, and that climate models far exaggerate temperature trends.
• The IPCC puts its latest temperature rise cost estimates at just 0.2 to 2 percent of GDP.
• Notably, governments tried to strike this finding from the report, with British, Belgian, Norwegian, Japanese and American politicians wanting it rewritten or deleted altogether.
• Officials had similar reactions to the IPCC's admission that climate policies would actually be more expensive than previously claimed (costing up to 11 percent of GDP by 2100), again seeking deletion.

Experts have known these truths, but politicians and the media have used exaggerated warming claims to promote poor policies, subsidizing green power with little actual benefit.