Mark Carney's Climate Lie
A 2014 UN report did NOT say humans are 'unequivocally' responsible for warming temperatures.
Beginning in 2009, I spent more than a decade researching climate issues. Why? Because I didn’t think the public was receiving the full picture. We weren’t hearing about the impressive, highly-credentialed, highly-experienced scientists who disagree with the mainstream narrative.
As a result, I’m the author of two books about an obscure but influential UN body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, aka the IPCC. I’ve delivered speeches about that organization in multiple countries, and have testified about its numerous shortcoming before a committee of the UK Parliament (see my written submission here). For an overview of why I believe no one should take anything it says seriously, you are invited to consult my 2015 presentation, 3 Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC.
Lots of self-important, upper class people are heavily invested in the idea that climate change is a crisis - rather than a manageable set of circumstances that may or may not come to pass. So far, dire predictions about what’s going on with the climate have missed by a country mile. But an imaginary climate crisis gives unpleasant personality types an excuse to interfere in other people’s lives. Enter Canada’s current prime minister, Mark Carney.
In Chapter 11 of his 2021 book, Values: Building a Better World for All, he says something patently untrue.
According to him, the IPCC had determined that the slight recent increase in global temperatures has unequivocally been caused by human activity.
He then provides a footnote (see the screenshot above), directing readers to a multi-volume report that’s just short of 5,000 pages long. This is a needle-in-the-haystack footnote. It pretends to provide useful information, but it’s actually useless.
Why doesn’t Mr Carney direct us to the relevant volume, the relevant page? The obvious reason is that this report doesn’t say what he claims. Rather, it says warming is unequivocal and that humans have contributed to that warming.
Mr Carney was repeating an old lie - one that extends back nearly 20 years. You can read some of the backstory in a blog post I authored in 2010. The short version is that activists have been trying to get away with a sleight of hand.
Please understand: many factors may be responsible for the modest amount of global warming we’ve observed since 1850. These include: natural cycles on our 4-billion-year-old planet, changes in cloud cover, whatever’s going on with the sun, volcanoes (including underwater volcanoes about which we remain unaware), and numerous other possibilities.
Climate activists care about only one cause. They’re determined to cast humans as the villains. They’ve spent years trying to mislead people, falsely claiming the IPCC said something it didn’t. Back in 2007, this lie was promulgated by the UN itself, in a shocking example of disinformation. Here’s a screenshot:
In 2010, the lie made it into a draft document that was circulated at the Cancun UN climate conference. After Andrew Revkin, a New York Times reporter, called out the IPCC, it course-corrected. In his words: “The only major conclusion of the climate panel that is described as ‘unequivocal’ is that the climate has warmed.”
I asked Grok, an AI tool, to locate all instances of the term unequivocal in the massive IPCC report cited by Mr Carney. It concluded:
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) does not use the exact term "unequivocal" to describe the human causation of warming in the same absolute way it does for the occurrence of warming itself.
In reality, the degree to which humans are affecting the climate is unclear. It remains well beyond our scientific abilities to assign precise percentages to the role volcanoes play versus the role that humans play.
Mark Carney’s book got it wrong. A man who imagines he’s brilliant enough to redesign the entire global financial and economic landscape - to build a better world for all, according to his subtitle - is actually this sloppy.
Mr. Carney has been hip deep in the climate scam for a long time. That, in my book, makes him:
A) illiterate (unable to assess the work of the other side) or B) incurious ( not willing to check out the other side) or C) deceitful ( knowingly perpetrating the lies). Of these choices I think C fits him best.
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