AFTER DOHA, THE U.N. AND MEMBER GOVERNMENTS NEED SOBER SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT ‘GLOBAL WARMING’

 

After 16 years without warming, future climate talks must focus on preparation for, and adaption to, climate change, not vainly trying to stop it.

Ottawa, Canada, December 9, 2012: “Governments must re-examine climate change science before considering further, more concrete commitments in the United Nations negotiating process,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), which is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. “In their November 29^th open letter to the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, scientists from across the globe explained that the science relied upon by the U.N. is seriously flawed. Mr. Ban must no longer ignore such highly qualified advice.”

Among the statements supported by the now 134 scientist endorsers to the open letter were:

• “there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period…carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations rose by nearly 9%...Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.”
• “Whether, when and how atmospheric warming will resume is unknown. The science is unclear.”
• “The hypothesis that our emissions of CO₂ have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence.”

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