More Anthropogenic Global Warming Denialism...

...courtesy of Rich Horton at The Iconic Midwest, who did the heavy lifting while I was busy elsewhere.

The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by ­government ­representatives [ed. note--"and agendized special interest groups"]. The great ­majority of IPCC contributors and ­reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.

Contrary to the impression left by the IPCC Summary reports...Leading scientists, including some senior IPCC representatives, acknowledge that today's computer models cannot predict climate. Consistent with this, and despite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th-century period of warming is consistent with the continuation today of natural multi-decadal or millennial climate cycling.

Sound familiar? It should--I've been saying it for years. Read the Whole Thing, and don't miss the list of horribly uncredentialed Evil Denialists.

Somewhat relevant: Patterico piles on.

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