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UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
Jonathan Leake,
London
Times
Monday, January 25th, 2010
THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy
for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number
and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been
subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored
warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting
the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the
claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.
The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity
and frequency of global disasters, has since become embedded
in political and public debate. It was central to discussions
at last month's Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand
by developing countries for compensation of $100 billion (£62
billion) from the rich nations blamed for creating the most
emissions.
Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change minister, has suggested
British and overseas floods — such as those in Bangladesh
in 2007 — could be linked to global warming. Barack Obama,
the US president, said last autumn: "More powerful storms
and floods threaten every continent."
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