Global science or global panic? Des Moore calls for an inquiry into the IPCC reports

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Global science or global panic? Des Moore calls for an inquiry into the IPCC reports

Des Moore writes at Quadrant Online:

I have been arguing for about two years for some kind of independent inquiry into the scientific basis of IPCC reports and, notwithstanding arguments by IPCC believers that their case has been strengthening over time, it now seems difficult to deny that various recent developments have weakened their case very significantly. My assessment is not based primarily on scientific analysis but on many years in Treasury and outside of analysing proposals for government intervention to solve perceived “crises”. Much analysis of the present proposal requires little more than common sense. Listed below are substantive questions, in staccato form, to which satisfactory answers justifying intervention to reduce emissions of CO2 have not been provided. Visit Quadrant Online to read Des Moore’s case for an inquiry.

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