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IPCC Gets a Solid “F” in WSJ Poll
At least some American media is paying attention to Climategate. But, according to a recent poll, maybe we don’t have to worry about people getting the news. A Wall Street Journal poll asks:
“How would you grade the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?”
As of 9:05 AM PST 2/28/10 they are graded as follows:
F = 81.3%
D = 12.1%
C = 2%
B = 1.8%
A = 2.8%
The D’s and F’s add up to 93.4% who think their work was sub-par.
Sounds like proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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I’m assuming that “F”= FAIL and “D”= atrociously bad, if so they’re still being a bit generous.
The 6.6% who gave A, B and C must be vested interests!
I fear my opinion of the IPCC is completely unprintable.
And in my estimation if I were marking their efforts, I would think the student/s was being downright facetious and I would not award any marks whatsoever.
Because any scientist can note immediately, the outrageous claims and implausible timescales – Himalayan glaciers to melt in 35 yrs………Heavens above it’s all b******* science and I’ve read more convincing, and more cogently argued conjecture in books by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle even Stephen King et al.
I guess the alphabet isn’t long enough to get a similar report for the University of East Anglia, and speaking as a Brit, I am thoroughly ashamed that, when the only thing we have to be proud about is our integrity, we have such a shameful example spread over the global media.
It doesn’t matter what the result of the inquiry is, no scientist with self-respect or a reputation they care about, will wish to be associated with them. You can fix many things, but a reputation isn’t one of them.