Some Climate Data At Odds With UN And US Reports

Really? Why would I misinform the public?
I think I’ll take a selfie.The Obama administration’s predictions of catastrophic climate change ignores a growing body of data suggesting that its claims do not align with the facts, say critics who point to figures indicating that the Planet stopped warming around Y 1998.

The National Climate Assessment released by the White House this week depicts  potentially dire consequences from  global warming, which it claims “is causing sea levels to rise and glaciers and Arctic Sea ice to melt.”

This tracks with claims from Rachendra Pachauri, chairman of the  UN affiliated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who has warned that failure to act could result in large-scale glacier melting with devastating effects for hundreds of millions of people in Asia alone.

But the panel’s reporting on the glacier issue has been marred by missteps in the past. Its Y 2007 report contained embarrassing errors.

For example: it exaggerated the percentage of The Netherlands that is below sea level. The report claimed 55% of the country was below sea level, even though the actual figure is really closer to 20%.

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