Climate change panel backpedals from some previous claims

The U.N. report on “climate change” released last month was different from previous iterations, even though it increased its level of confidence in its catastrophic conclusions to the “95 percent” level.

This version, the fifth the United Nations has offered since the 1990s, was met with well-researched criticism that, for a wonder, actually was reported in many major news outlets right along with the official claims.

The critics noted the new report included several alterations that had been made from previous versions, including the following:

• Surface warming leveled off about 1998, even though there has been a 7 percent rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide since then.

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