Flaws surface in U.N. climate report
Farm and Ranch February 18, 2010 First, it was scandalous e-mails, then flawed predictions the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. Now a UN climate panel admission that it overstated how much of The Netherlands is below sea level. All this further challenging EPA’s push for climate regulations and undermining carbon cap and trade legislation in congress. Ric Krause, Senior Director of Congressional Relations with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says some lawmakers are now calling for an independent probe into the U.N. climate panel’s work. Krause: “People need to be very sure that the report is accurate. And we think that finding mistakes in one part of the part leads to the possibility that they may be in other parts as well. So we think that a reexamination of the report might not be a bad thing at this point.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says however, that none of the errors in the 2007 report affect the core conclusion that human activities, led by burning fossil fuels, are warming the globe. The Farm Bureau’s Krause says EPA relied heavily on UN climate panel work to make its controversial greenhouse gas “endangerment finding”—compelling some ag and industry groups to petition EPA to ‘reconsider’ its finding and hold off on any climate rules. The American Farm Bureau and about 140 other farm groups back a Senate Resolution to block the EPA from regulating carbon emissions. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network. ?
