Donna Laframboise has done a magnificent job of describing and documenting the shocking bias, distortion, deception, and outright corruption in the IPCC. She has done what investigative journalists and the news media should have been doing over the past decade, i.e., looking clearly and objectively, with supporting evidence, at the policies and practices of the UN body largely responsible for wasting many billions of dollars on agenda-driven propaganda, rather than scientific inquiry. While the news media was giving us the same kind of propaganda as the IPCC, Donna Laframboise was asking the kinds of questions they should have been asking.
The IPCC has been portrayed by the news media as the `gold standard' of scientific inquiry (their words)--that all scientists agree that rising CO2 will cause catastrophe, that everything in the IPCC reports has been peer reviewed by the world's best scientists, that it is 90% certain that everything the IPCC says is true, that the IPCC includes all of the world's most expert scientists, and on and on. What Donna Laframboise found with in-depth investigative reporting is that many of the IPCC so-called world-expert "scientists" are in fact young, inexperienced, graduate students with very limited academic credentials and publication records, and many are not even scientists with any background in climatology. Many of the world's true climate experts have been purposely avoided by the IPCC because their data disagrees with the anthropogenic global warming party line. Huge amounts of scientific data has deliberately been left out of the IPCC reports for the same reason--it doesn't support the anthropogenic cause of global warming. The IPCC has claimed that everything in their reports has been peer reviewed by the world's most expert scientists, but Donna Laframboise found that at least 30% of the IPCC publication citations came from non-scientific source material, such as activist magazines, unpublished reports, and Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund press releases. The common thread among IPCC contributors and reviewers is that all have connections to activist organizations, clearly conflicting with impartiality.
This book reveals the IPCC is really not a scientific organization, but rather a politically motivated and excessively funded means to establish a UN World government supplanting national sovereignty with power to redistribute wealth among nations, control individual lives, and expend limitless funds with no accountability. High ranking IPCC officials have publically acknowledged that IPCC is not about science, but about political control and money.
The writing style is clear and easy to read. No scientific knowledge is required to understand the clear statements and proof offered for the intellectually corrupt practices of the IPCC. She uses damning evidence from the IPCC itself to show that the whole structure of the IPCC is corrupt and beyond credibility.
The next IPCC report is due out next year. I've read parts of the initial draft and it is very clear that despite having received a damning assessment by an independent research organization, the IPCC has reverted back to same practices that have destroyed its credibility. It is virtually unchanged from the previous version. It will be interesting to see if the news media and journalists take the time and effort to assess the new report with the vigor and depth of Donna Laframboise's book.
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A very important investigative report on the facts underlying the many myths of the IPCC
Unlike reviewers Gleick and Bowles above, I have actually read "The Delinquent Teenager ...". First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am one who was privileged to read Donna's early and final drafts (as well as one whose own work has been cited in the book).One cannot over-estimate the importance of this book in addressing the shortcomings of far too many so-called science journalists (and other media mavens) who have been content to let the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rest on its self-anointed laurels for far too many years.Until this book, far too many questions about the IPCC had been unasked - by far too many influential people. Donna has asked these questions, and meticulously researched the answers, which she presents in an eminently readable (and easily verifiable) fashion.As Prof. Ross McKitrick observed in his pre-publication review: "Donna Laframboise shows that the IPCC's actual operations bear little resemblance to its public reputation ... far from being an open network of top experts it has turned itself into a narrow clique of like-minded activists ... [The IPCC's] reports have come to be more like agenda-driven propaganda than competent, objective scientific assessments."A copy of "The Delinquent Teenager ..." should be placed on the bookshelf (electronic or otherwise) of every scientist, politician and government functionary who has (unwittingly or not) ever relied on the authority of the IPCC's assessment reports.
Top reviews from other countries
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- akagypsyReviewed in Canada on June 16, 2020
Climate alarmists are politicians NOT scientists
- Dr Brian JM TimmsReviewed in Australia on November 12, 2021
Everybody should read this book
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- Vivian EvansReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2011
You don't need to be a scientist to read this book!
