A new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals how sober factual information in official climate reports is steadily distorted in moving from the original text (written by scientists) to the Summary for Policymakers (written by political hacks) to the official press releases (written by public relations officials) and then to the media coverage (written by journalists). [bold, links added]
The paper, by physicist Dr. Ralph Alexander, looks at two specific areas of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report: reconstructions of global temperatures over the last two millennia, and the coverage of marine heatwaves.
Dr. Alexander explains:
“Take the global temperature reconstructions. The political hacks introduced Michael Mann’s famous Hockey Stick graph into the Summary for Policymakers, even though this was not even mentioned by the scientists in the report itself.
“This graph is then used by the press officers to claim that current temperatures are ‘unprecedented’, but the scientists who wrote the original report said nothing of the sort, and indeed reported data that would contradict such a claim.”
GWPF director Dr. Benny Peiser said:
“Ralph Alexander’s paper is a revelation, demonstrating beyond all reasonable doubt that the public is being failed by IPCC officials and the news media.
“The message is clear. You can’t trust the habitual hype and exaggeration that the green establishment would like you to believe on climate.”
Ralph B. Alexander: Chinese Whispers: How climate science gets distorted in translation (pdf)
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I don’t know if Dr. Alexander is unaware or just chooses not to note that the Summary for Policymakers is intentionally misleading and even completely false in places. The IPCC was not created to inform but to foster public acceptance of more government control. Maurice Strong, a key proponent and self-described socialist, was instrumental in its design that separates the reasonable review of scientific evidence by one of the working groups from the crafted SPM, the only part that gets much attention. The ploy to provide a veneer of scientific credibility to alarmist propaganda is deliberate.
On this subject, please read Donna Laframboise’s 2011 book about the IPCC, “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert.” It’s VERY illuminating!
https://amazon.com/Delinquent-Teenager-Mistaken-Worlds-Climate/dp/1466453486/ref=sr_1_1