Climate Commission advice is no basis for a carbon tax, four scientists claim | Australian Conservative

The scientific advice contained within The Critical Decades Climate Commission report is an inadequate, flawed and misleading basis on which to set national policy, a scientific audit published this week claims.

The audit undertaken by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and William Kininmonth says:

The report is emotive and tendentious throughout, ignores sound scientific criticism of IPCC shibboleths that has been made previously, and is shotgun in its approach and at the same time selective in its use of evidence. The arguments presented depend heavily upon unvalidated computer models the predictions of which have been wrong for the last 23 years, and which are unremittingly and unjustifiably alarmist in nature.

Independent scientists are confident overall that there is no evidence of global warming at a rate faster than for the two major 20th century phases of natural warming; no evidence of sea level rise at a rate greater than the 20th century natural rise of ~1.7 mm/yr; no evidence of acceleration in sea-level change in either the tide gauge or satellite records; and nothing unusual about the behaviour of mountain glaciers, Arctic sea ice or the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets.

(Read the Scientific audit of a report from the Climate Commission “The Critical Decade – Climate science, risks and responses May, 2011, at Quadrant Online.)