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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Has AchievedIts Goal: It’s Time To Repair The Damage.
Dr. Timothy BallClimate science was hijacked for a political agenda that is now achieved.Amazingly, it was done in full view. It was achieved because most peopleincluding skeptics and deniers still don’t understand even the most basicelements of the science. All the efforts of the so-called skeptics or deniershad little effect. It was achieved because most people only look at one pieceof a very extensive and complex system. The IPCC are able to publish theincredibleclaimthat, “
 Another unusual aspect of recent climate change isits cause: past climate changes were natural in origin (see FAQ 6.1),whereas most of the warming of the past 50 years is attributable to humanactivities”
without raising red flags. How can they make such a claim whenalbedochange alone exceeds the entire change due to CO2?Or consider Dr. Rao’sfindings about cosmic rays that the IPCC don’t evenconsider. “
 In fact, the contribution of decreasing cosmic ray activity toclimate change is almost 40 per cent, argues Dr. Rao in a paper which hasbeen accepted for publication in Current Science, the preeminent Indian science journal. The IPCC model, on the other hand, says that thecontribution of carbon emissions is over 90 per cent.”
 
IPCC’s success in achieving their goal is because of the deliberate processand methods put in place to direct and control their work. It is also due to thegeneralist nature of climatology in an age of specialization. I spoke of this inmy presentation to the First Heartland Conference. The result is the IPCCwas able to focus on individual components and present them out of context.They were able to put and keep the focus on CO2 so that most people stilldon’t know it is less than 4 percent of the greenhouse gases or even thatwater vapor is the most abundant and important greenhouse gas.It is true that concern about warming has diminished, overridden byeconomic issues and cold weather. The problem is the switch from the termglobal warming to climate change transferred the concern. It was further amplified by the termClimate Disruptionspublicly used by John Holdren,Obama’s science czar. This reinforced the practice of implying or statingthat current natural climate change events are unnatural. Holdren was a co-researcher and publisher with Paul Ehrlich. His book 
The Population Bomb
was pivotal in the debate central to the Club of Rome claim thatoverpopulation amplified by industrialization was destroying the planet.The world is still focused on CO2, although most now incorrectly refer to itas carbon. Most governments have policy for CO2 reduction; many imposedirect and indirect taxes and other forms of legislation restricting CO2 production. They reinforced this policy with subsidies to alternate energies because they produce less CO2. This almost single focus was the objectiveof the IPCC. Despite a steady flow of scientific challenges to its role inweather and climate, coupled with exposure of corrupt activities, it continuesto dominate global energy and environmental policies. Private industry hasseized the opportunities created by the focus to produce and promote products and to improve their public image. The meaningless term “CarbonFootprint” is now part of common language.This is not surprising because it was the objective of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the start. A simple illustration of the point is that in the great complexity of weather and thereby its average,climate, the focus was on very few variables. Within those few it wasspecifically on CO2.Figure 1shows a systems display of just theAtmosphere and Oceans portion.
 
 Areas of Forcing chosen and displayed in the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Reports provide further evidence of this focus. (Figures 2 and 3)
Figure 2: Radiative Forcings diagram from 2001 IPCC Report.
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