The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has admitted to an error in their most recent report (2007) stating that the Himalayan glaciers would have disappeared by 2035! (Should have been 2350!) Now one mistake in a 3000 page report is not a lot, but on such a significant point, it should have been noticed and corrected much sooner! The question still arises, though, how much of the modelling used to predict climate change is error free? Small errors and wrong assumptions can have a great effect on the final results...and who checks the information? Can the data be checked and verified independently when so many people have made their mind up (pro or anti)? This is my major doubt about the whole 'Climate Change Industry' - it is more like a religion where you HAVE TO BELIEVE or be persecuted for just being a good scientist saying, "Are You Sure?"!
Your Wednesday questions are: -
- A tunnel under which English river was formally opened by the Prince of
Wales (later Edward VII) today in 1886? - Which role in "Star Trek" was played by DeForest Kelley (right) who was born today in 1920?
- Who bit the head off a bat in a concert in America today in 1982?
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