The science is settled

Last week, after six months of evasions, obfuscation, denials and retractions, a story which has preoccupied this column on and off since January came to a startling conclusion. It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in the 2007 report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a claim on which tens of billions of dollars could hang – was not based on peer-reviewed science, as repeatedly claimed, but originated solely from anonymous propaganda published on the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group.

Experimentem procurar ligações entre a malta do IPCC e a do web site e ficam logo a saber como se perpetrou a marosca. Se não souberem onde anda a malta do web site procurem entre a verdelhada que recebeu ziliões em financiamento pago pelo contribuinte.