by Nathan Worcester
Epoch Times
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued the first installment of its Sixth Assessment Report, “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.”
For those receptive to the report, it provides a needed message about the serious consequences of climate change and the need to end fossil fuel use. Those who are skeptical pointed to the failure of the IPCC in predicting climate change in past reports.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land,” the report states…
Steve Milloy, a bio-statistician who served on the Environmental Protection Agency transition team for the Trump administration, said there is “no doubt” that “humans have (slightly) warmed the planet.”
But in a Twitter thread, he voiced skepticism about the amount of warming described by the IPCC, pointing to climatologist Roy Spencer’s work as evidence that temperature data may be distorted by the urban heat island effect. Milloy also cited multiple examples of “failed climate predictions” from past decades, including atmospheric physicist James Hansen’s statement in 1987 that global temperatures would increase 3 degrees C by 2020.
