Japanese Commission Challenges UN: Global Warming Not Man-made

Japanese Commission Challenges UN: Global Warming Not Man-made
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By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
February 25, 2009 - 11:12 ET




A Japanese energy commission released a report last month challenging the supposed international consensus that man is responsible for warming the planet while claiming that climate modeling -- the questionably accurate process of predicting the future so key to Nobel Laureate Al Gore's myth -- is immature and akin to ancient astrology.

The study also called the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusion that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise "an unprovable hypothesis," while castigating "the paucity of the US ground temperature data set used to support the hypothesis."

The Japan Society of Energy and Resources was founded in 1980 to "promote the science and technology concerning energy and resources and thus to facilitate cooperation among industry academia and governmental sectors for coping with the problems in this field."

On Wednesday, the UK Register published a translation of the Society's January report which for some reason America's global warming-obsessed press chose to ignore:
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Three of the five researchers disagree with the UN's IPCC view that recent warming is primarily the consequence of man-made industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. [...]

One of the five contributors compares computer climate modelling to ancient astrology. Others castigate the paucity of the US ground temperature data set used to support the hypothesis, and declare that the unambiguous warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century has ceased. [...]

Kanya Kusano is Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC). He focuses on the immaturity of simulation work cited in support of the theory of anthropogenic climate change. Using undiplomatic language, Kusano compares them to ancient astrology. After listing many faults, and the IPCC's own conclusion that natural causes of climate are poorly understood, Kusano concludes:

"[The IPCC's] conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonous increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis," he writes.

Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, has expressed criticism of the theory before. Akasofu uses historical data to challenge the claim that very recent temperatures represent an anomaly:

"We should be cautious, IPCC's theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with CO2 is nothing but a hypothesis. "

Akasofu calls the post-2000 warming trend hypothetical. His harshest words are reserved for advocates who give conjecture the authority of fact.

"Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth... The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken."

Isn't it interesting that this group has touched on issues NewsBusters has been reporting for years, namely the absurdity of relying on unproven and untested climate models and the unreliability of the climate data being collated and disseminated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association as well as NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies?

Interested parties are encouraged to review the entire translation here as are political leaders and media members foolishly encouraging a carbon cap and trade scheme which will cost America billions of dollars in the midst of a recession to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Exist question: how many international scientists and commissions will need to come forward and contest this nonsense before folks on the left and their media minions acknowledge anthropogenic global warming to be a man-made myth with no scientific foundation?

Ive always felt it was BS

Maybe I should move to Japan. They may be the last ones standing.