By James D. Agresti
February 6, 2012
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change, and its work provides the basis of numerous climate policies in the U.S. and throughout the world. Once every 5 to 7 years, the organization publishes a major report about global warming, the latest of which was in 2007. An examination of the ClimateGate documents by Just Facts has revealed that a key study conducted for this report never saw the light of day.
In a previously overlooked email exchange buried among the thousands of ClimateGate files, Keith Briffa, an IPCC lead author, distributed the results of a study assigned to him during a meeting with an IPCC co-chair. Briffa wrote that he and another IPCC scientist (Tim Osborn) were "asked to try to produce a 'cloud' diagram … to see if it provided an 'obvious' picture of the unprecedented warming over the last millennium or so." .... Read more at http://www.justfacts.com
