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Breaking News: UN “Climate Change” Chief to Resign

February 18th, 2010 by AHFF Geoff

Chief announces surprise resignation as of July 1, 2010 as a drumbeat of revelations chips away at the validity of the Anthropogenic Global Warming ("AGW") theory. Credit: Reuters

In the wake of the ClimateGate scandal, unmet expectations at the Copenhagen Summit and an admission of no “statistically significant” global warming since 1995 in a BBC interview this week of a senior climate scientist, Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, announced today that he would resign effective July 1, 2010. The Associated Press broke the story this morning:

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.

His departure takes effect July 1, five months before 193 nations are due to reconvene in Mexico for another attempt to reach a binding worldwide accord on controlling greenhouse gases. De Boer’s resignation adds to the uncertainty that a full treaty can be finalized there.

De Boer is known to be deeply disappointed with the outcome of the last summit in Copenhagen, which drew 120 world leaders but failed to reach more than a vague promise by several countries to limit carbon emissions – and even that deal fell short of consensus.

De Boer’s announcement is the latest shock wave to hit the large community of scientists and associated think tanks, interest groups and universities that have relentlessly pushed the theory of Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (“AGW”) as undeniable scientific fact for the past two decades. The resignation follows the blockbuster interview by BBC of Dr. Phil Jones (see full BBC interview text here), of the East Anglia (UK) Climate Research Unit, over the weekend in which Dr. Jones, previously a fervent critic of anyone who disputed the existence of AGW, admitted that the Earth has seen no “statistically significant” warming since 1995 and that the Earth warmed similarly in several prior periods of time, including most significantly the “Medieval Warming Period” (“MWP”), prior to any conceivable AGW. The British media reported on the importance of these admissions by AGW enthusiast Dr. Jones:

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.

The MWP has been at the center of disputes between the AGW theory proponents and its critics, which have been frequently disparaged by AGW theory proponents, including Dr. Jones, as “deniers” and compared to Holocaust deniers. As a leading figure in the AGW movement has now confirmed the great scientific uncertainty surrounding AGW theory, one can only hope that the slanderous rhetoric applied to all critics of AGW theory will now subside and the American media will begin honestly reporting the substantive critiques of AGW theory.   The initial reporting by American media of the Jones BBC interview has been sparse and limited to new media sources generally and any old media reporting has failed to mention the key Jones statements about the MWP and the lack of warming since 1995.  Today’s “report” in the the New York Times demonstrates the incomplete and bias nature of the reporting to date on the blockbuster admissions from Dr. Jones:

Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal, answers questions from the BBC. In the interview, Jones maintains that he never intended to “trick” the public about global warming or subvert the academic peer-review process. He also clears up some confusion about the global warming record, confirming that the warming rates for the periods of 1860-1880, 1910-1940, and 1975-1998 “are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.” While the scandal has provided plenty of fodder for global warming skeptics, Jones says he’s “100% confident that the climate has warmed.”

As you can see, the NYT, and the rest of the mainstream American media, refuses to report the damaging admissions made by Dr. Jones regarding the lack of statistically significant warming since 1995 and the MWP, both of which clearly pierce the claim by AGW enthusiasts, such as Democrat politicians President Barack Obama and former Vice President Al Gore, that the “science is settled” on AGW. As Americans suffer through the most severe winter in decades, it will be interesting to see when, if ever, the American media begins to puncture the mile wide, inch deep narrative regarding the infallibility of AGW theory.

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