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Dutch Professor Richard Tol has resigned from the Climate Panel of the UN. Professor Tol disagrees with the biased negative conclusions of the latest UN climate report. The consequences of climate change are being systematically over-estimated, according to him.
Dutch Professor Richard Tol has resigned from the Climate Panel of the UN. Professor Tol disagrees with the biased negative conclusions of the latest UN climate report. The consequences of climate change are being systematically over-estimated, according to him.
"The Panel is directed from within the environment lobby and not from within the science."
The UN IPCC presented its fifth climate report in Yokohama at the
end of last month. The IPCC says if there are no changes in world-wide
climate policies then the chance of calling a halt to further warming of
the earth will be lost, says the report's most important conclusion
and warning.
But, according to Professor of Climate Economy Tol, the tone of the
report is grossly "alarming and apocalyptic". The consequences of
climate change are being over-estimated. "This over-estimation is
encouraged by the self-selection of authors and references within the
Panel" Tol told the Belgian newspaper De Morgen.
There are top scientists in the UN IPCC, but there are nonetheless
many mediocre researchers. Besides which there are a number of people
who have the right political connections. The organisation is directed
and controlled by people who benefit from climate policy. The UN IPCC is
directed from within the environmental lobby and not from within the
science."
Consequently Professor Tol has resigned from the Panel with
immediate effect. He has been dissatisfied for a long time. According to
Tol two official investigations have indicated that there is systematic
over-estimation of the consequences of climate change within the UN's
IPCC.
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Translated from Dutch to English by Hans Schreuder. Below is the original Dutch article from:
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