John McGuirk

Get thee to a bookies and get odds on the Irish media totally ignoring the following story. Then bet your house on it:

“The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine…..

…..The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming….

…It comes after officials for the panel were forced earlier this month to retract inaccurate claims in the IPCC’s report about the melting of Himalayan glaciers…..

…Researchers have expressed exasperation at the IPCC’s use of unsubstantiated claims and sources outside of the scientific literature”

Remember this, next time a Green tells you that we have to radically re-order the Global economy based on the best available, peer-reviewed Science. And remember this series of stories next time an Irish Times journalist uses the phrase “Paper of Record” in your vicinity.