According to Lorne Gunter, when it comes to the climate
change debate, the truth doesn't matter
For more than two
weeks now, scientists with doubts about the dangers of global warming have been
buzzing about what appears to be a huge admission from the United Nations.
A draft of the UN's
next five-year assessment report has been leaked and appears to show what the
skeptics have been saying for years: Carbon dioxide has less effect on global
temperatures than thought, the sun is a bigger "driver" of climate
change, and global temperatures have not risen appreciably in the past 16
years.
We skeptics need to
take a breath. I have no doubt the draft of AR5 (Fifth Assessment Report) says
exactly what the skeptics claim, namely that the UN and its Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has overestimated the effect CO2 has on global
temperatures, underestimated the effects of the giant ball of burning gas in
the sky and, as a consequence, incorrectly predicted how much Earth will warm
in the coming century.
It's a fact, though,
that in the climate change debate, the truth doesn't matter.
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