The IPCC's False Icons

IPCC  AR2, 1995

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Ben Santer’s falsely named 

“distinct human fingerprint” !

The "fingerprint" had 

condensation of water vapor 

at higher altitudes 

(about 10 km, or 33,000 feet) 

over the tropics, 

giving off latent heat

(aka 'the tropical hot spot').

Facts:

After over 20 years

of searching,

weather balloons and

weather satellites

have never found the

alleged "hot spot."

IPCC  AR3, 2001

False Icon:

Michael Mann’s hockey-stick chart !

Facts:

Part of Mann's chart 

was based on

the work of 
Sherwood Idso 

and others 

on bristlecone pines 

in the White Mountains 

of California, 

which attributed 

recent growth 

to carbon dioxide 

enrichment ... 

later falsely claimed 

to be from 

"global warming". 

Bristlecone proxy data,

are not reliable for 

temperature reconstructions.

But even worse, the data

were spliced to real time

thermometer data,

on the infamous 

hockey stock chart.

Mann did not bother

to mention his use

of two different

data sources 

on the same chart.

Of course this was

done by a smarmy

government 
bureaucrat 

"scientist", 

after he realized 

that 20th century 

temperature data

derived from 
pine cones

showed no warming, 

so Mann deleted that data
and substituted
surface thermometer

data that did show 
warming in the 20th century,

and decided no one else 

needed to know that !

IPCC  AR4, 2007

False Icon:

Himalayan glaciers melting 

by mid-21st century ! 

Facts:

The "melting" 

in the Himalayas 

had a focus on

some glaciers melting; 

but other glaciers, 

that were increasing,

were ignored !

IPCC  AR5, 2013/2014

False Icon:

Accelerating sea level rise !

Facts:

The sea level 

"hockey stick"

was caused by a switch 

to satellite data,

which are 

not accurate for

sea level measurements!

The satellite data 

are contradicted 

by strong evidence 

from tidal gages 

that are located in 

stable coastal areas. 

The UN Intergovernmental 

Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 

the US Global Change Research 

Program (USGCRP), 

NOAA, NASA, 

and other organizations 

have offered no physical evidence 

that sea level rise is increasing, 

is related to CO2, and is a threat 

to human or national security. 

The governmental organizations 

have shifted from presenting 

hard evidence, to presenting 

speculation as evidence.