http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...-ipcc-insider/
http://www.probeinternational.org/Hulme-Mahony-PiPG[1].pdf

June 13, 2010, 05:50:38 | Lawrence Solomon

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that
thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a
prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that
claim was "only a few dozen experts," he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography,
co-authored with student Martin Mahony.

"Claims such as '2,500 of the world's leading scientists have reached a consensus that human
activities are having a significant influence on the climate' are disingenuous," the paper states
unambiguously, adding that they rendered "the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism."

Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of
East Anglia - the university of Climategate fame - is the founding Director of the Tyndall Centre
for Climate Change Research and one of the UK's most prominent climate scientists. Among his many
roles in the climate change establishment, Hilme was the IPCC's co-ordinating Lead Author for its
chapter on 'Climate scenario development' for its Third Assessment Report and a contributing author
of several other chapters.

Hulme's depiction of IPCC's exaggeration of the number of scientists who backed its claim about
man-made climate change can be found on pages 10 and 11 of his paper, found here.

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Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe and the author of The Deniers.