The United Nations Said Rising Temperatures Were To Blame For An Increase In The Number And Severity Of Natural Disasters Such As Hurricanes And Flood

climate change minister Ed Miliband has claimed that floods such as those which devastated parts of Cumbria last year could be widespread if global warming goes unchecked, all of the above total, absolute, lies! it has emerged that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based the statement, made in 2007, on an unpublished report that had not been properly reviewed by other scientists, the report's author has since withdrawn the claim, saying there is not enough evidence to link climate change to worsening natural disasters, and criticised the use of his data as 'completely misleading' that assertion was based on ' speculation' featured in an eight-year-old article in New Scientist magazine,

the claim was taken from a then unpublished report by Robert Muir-Wood, head of research at London-based consultancy Risk Management Solutions, when Dr Muir-Wood released the report he added the caveat: 'We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses [damage caused by natural disasters].'

Dr Muir-Wood attacked the way his evidence was used, He said: 'The idea that catastrophes are rising in cost partly because of climate change is completely misleading, We could not tell if it was just an association or cause and effect, 'Also, our study included 2004 and 2005 which was when there were some major hurricanes, if you took those years away then the significance of climate change vanished.'

unbelievable, an unpublished report written by some one is taken on board and not checked by his peers, worse by an organisation as august as the UN and put out as the truth, for years and we believed them! and then we went round putting up taxes to combat man made global warming, as I have repeated for as far back as I can remember, man made global warming is a green tree hugger money making myth, but alas, it is to big and rich to stop.