On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:39:01 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...ut_the_ti.html

Oh oh....


Ah, the same guy who didn't want the California utilities to be able to
voluntarily adjust thermostats... a smear campaign expert!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Thinker

"The new controversy also goes back to the IPCC's 2007 report in which
a separate section warned that the world had "suffered rapidly rising
costs due to extreme weather-related events since the 1970s".

It suggested a part of this increase was due to global warming and
cited the unpublished report, saying: "One study has found that while
the dominant signal remains that of the significant increases in the
values of exposure at risk, once losses are normalised for exposure,
there still remains an underlying rising trend."

The Sunday Times has since found that the scientific paper on which
the IPCC based its claim had not been peer reviewed, nor published, at
the time the climate body issued its report.

When the paper was eventually published, in 2008, it had a new caveat.
It said: "We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical
relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe
losses."


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7000063.ece