The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of
vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.
NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world's
ice -
caps are melting, it emerged last night. Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea
ice may have been premature. It was feared that the
polar caps were
vanishing because of the effects of global warming. But figures from the respected US National -LSB-...]