Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:06:24 AM
The United Nations published the following graph in
this climate report, the
2009 Climate Change Science Compendium:
This graph was published in the linked Compendium for use at the New York summit attended by President Obama. As Harold Ambler notes:
"...the origin of a graph used in last week’s UN climate report, was not an august team of scientists working around the clock, but rather Wikipedia." You read that right. The UN, instead of gathering and using material from actual, published climate scientists, went to their source of record - Wikipedia.
Perhaps equally surprising was the revelation that the graph’s author was not a climatologist, but rather an obscure Norwegian ecologist, Hanno Sandvik, who claimed no expertise regarding the data used in his graph. Misidentified in the UN report as “Hanno,” Sandvik politely distanced himself from the graph as the story unfolded. The UN report authors, meanwhile, had given a scientist they had never met or heard of the appearance of scientific legitimacy.
Another shot to the 'credibility' of the UN on climate. How much of the rest of the 'data' in their report isn't legit?
More here.