Global Warming Advocacy Science: A Cross Examination

Austrian economics and climate change

“…This claim is supported by an impressively thorough and incisive cross-examination of the current state of climate science. Johnston (2010) compares 'the picture of climate science presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other global warming scientist advocates with the peer-reviewed scientific literature on climate change (p. 1)', finding that the 'peer-edited literature seems to conflict with the picture painted by establishment climate science' (p. 1). The climate establishment (the IPCC and other global warming scientist advocates) engages in 'stylized rhetorical techniques that seem to oversell what is actually known about climate change while concealing fundamental uncertainties and open questions regarding many of the key processes involved in climate change ' (p. 1).…”

“…78-8). Failures to comply with standard scientific procedures concerning access to data, by the IPCC itself and by some of its contributing researchers, have been well-documented (Johnston 2010). There are severe limitations on the reliability of predictions made by climate models.…”

“…The potential total cost rises from 11% to 14% of global GDP with the inclusion of estimates of the effects of positive feedback effects of climate change. These have always been controversial and Johnston (2010) finds that 'the fundamental assumption in climate models used by the IPCCof large positive feedback effectsindeed the assumption that by itself is responsible for potentially catastrophic large temperature increases is strongly disconfirmed by the existing evidence' (p. 47).…”