Ecuador mineral exports could fall by some 20% this year, says official
Mining exports were worth $3.3 billion for Ecuador in 2023.
A leaked UN draft report on climate change allegedly shows that computer predictions of global warming used by top scientists turned out to be inaccurate.
The 2013 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, scheduled for publication later this month, is said to correct the 2007 version, which “did not take enough notice of natural variability in the climate, therefore exaggerating the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures,” the Telegraph reports.
The 2013 version claims that the globe is “warming at a rate of 0.12C per decade since 1951, compared to a prediction of 0.13C per decade in their last assessment published in 2007.”
The scientists admit that their computer models failed also to predict the “pause” in global warming that has been observed over the past 16 years: since 1997, “world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase.”
The document also shows that prior to the Industrial Revolution, some parts of the globe were just as warm for “decades at a time as they are now.”
Report author Professor Myles Allen of Oxford University was quick to remind critics and supporters of the IPCC that scientists must constantly revise their work as new data come in.
“It is not a bible, it is a scientific review, an assessment of the literature. Frankly both sides are seriously confused on how science works – the critics of the IPCC and the environmentalists who credit the IPCC as if it is the gospel.”
8 Comments
RMS
“Cherry picking 101”: it’s only increasing by 0.12 C/decade, not 0.13.
Wild_Bird
Anthropogenic Global Warming is the biggest scientific hoax in human history.
Sven
Global warming was an excuse (feeble) to create a global tax to fund the institutions of the New World Order. Sad and pathetic now that it’s exposed.
Realistic
Nice to see a mining website is full of climate change deniers, way to represent the industry.
Sparrowhawk
Climate change has been underestimated. 99.999 scientists agree that climate change is a reality and are working towards solutions. Thirty towns in Texas have NO water, over 6 million acres burned this summer along with 1500 homes, creating thousands of climate refugees and costing billions in repairs, not to mention business loss. That is one state, one summer. Sandy was no accident. It was predicted. Open your eyes, people. Time for solutions. Moving forward.
Tom Saltsman
I wouldn’t believe this bald-faced, asinine denial of common sense and simple scientific consensus regarding global warming if I hadn’t heard with my own ears six-pack-a-day drunks denying they were drunks and chain smokers denying they would get lung cancer. I wouldn’t believe it had I not heard corporations and judges openly denying corporations had any external responsibility to anyone–not even future generations and the health and safety of the planet– except to stockholders. Check out the latter for yourself, history know-nothings, if you don’t believe me. It’s well-proven and admitted.
The combined common sense and science of global warming is so simple with its measuring of rising carbon in the atmosphere–not to mention the loss of billions of tons of the planet’s ice–the denial of these obvious things reminds me of the days when people were so stubborn and stupid, they used to bow down and pray to a goofy-looking, man-made idol. As the prophets and St. Paul said in numerous places, the greedy are idolators. And today, these dangerously-blind, wealth-worshiping personality types (like the admittedly irresponsible corporations) are the same ones pushing every possible bound of stupidity in every possible direction. Even greedy insurance companies believe in global warming! Well, they must be part of the conspiracy.
So yes, there’s a conspiracy all right! It’s a conspiracy to destroy the serious damage caused by self-centered, greedy, irresponsible risk-takers. And I’m part of that conspiracy. Only no one is paying me a cent to plot behind closed doors as was proven about some oil companies and their expensive disinformation campaign regarding climate science denial. I just think for myself and know when someone’s pissing on my shoes and calling it a rainstorm.
Gryffon
So, now that the ACTUAL report is out, saying nothing of the sort, are you going to print a prominent correction?
Yeah, I’m sure.
johnny moff
I checked out nasa.gov web site and it is full of completely out of date info that is nothing but “gloom and doom” propaganda. any old story (not updated) with no current scientific measurements. example- elephant butte lake water levels. I stayed in new mexico this past year. the only reason the lake would be at 3% is because the water is not being properly managed. plenty of rainfall where I was north of the lake. And its actually at 14% not 3% NASA rocket scientists lol! LIES!