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===Climategate fraud===

===Climategate fraud===

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rain forest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland. However, Climategate forced the United Nations climate watchdog to admit claims that global warming might wipe out 40% of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]] [[Forest|rainforest]] was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.<ref>Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', January 31, 2010.</ref><ref>Richard Gray. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article], Telegraph.co.uk, January 30, 2010.</ref> In another crushing blow for the man-made global warming movement, [[Greenpeace]] leader [[Gerd Leipold]] admitted that his organization issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice would disappear completely by 2030.<ref>Paul Joseph Watson. [http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-leader-admits-organization-put-out-fake-global-warming-data/ Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data], ''Info Wars'', August 20, 2009.</ref> Despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off, and regardless of the fraud, deceit and uncovered lies about global warming, the head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said he would not resign.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583711,00.html U.N. Climate Change Expert Cites More Errors in Report], ''[[Fox News]]'', January 25, 2010.</ref>

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rain forest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland. However, Climategate forced the United Nations climate watchdog to admit intentionally publishing false claims; the IPCC claims about melting ice in the [[Alps]], the [[Andes]], and in [[Africa]] did not come from [[peer review|peer reviewed]] scientific literature—but from ''Climbing Magazine'', and from a student dissertation—written by a [[climate change]] [[activist]] who was studying for a degree in [[Geography]].<ref>Glenn Beck. [http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/35784/ Exclusive: Yet another climategate?], ''The Glenn Beck Program'', February 1, 2010.</ref> The IPCC claims that global warming might wipe out 40% of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]] [[Forest|rainforest]] was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.<ref>Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', January 31, 2010.</ref><ref>Richard Gray. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article], Telegraph.co.uk, January 30, 2010.</ref>  

 

In another crushing blow for the man-made global warming movement, [[Greenpeace]] leader [[Gerd Leipold]] admitted that his organization issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that [[Arctic]] [[ice]] would disappear completely by 2030.<ref>Paul Joseph Watson. [http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-leader-admits-organization-put-out-fake-global-warming-data/ Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data], ''Info Wars'', August 20, 2009.</ref> Despite the admission that a panel report warning [[Himalayan]] [[glaciers]] could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off, and regardless of the fraud, deceit and lies the Greenpeace organization spread about global warming, Gerd Leipold said he would not resign.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583711,00.html U.N. Climate Change Expert Cites More Errors in Report], ''[[Fox News]]'', January 25, 2010.</ref>

==Climategate emails==

==Climategate emails==