It's an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: "2,500 scientists of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis."
But it's not true.
Newsweek's senior editor Sharon Begley has taken it upon herself to publicly declare the recent floods in the Midwest are being caused by global warming.
Sockeye salmon swimming up the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon in higher-than-expected numbers are spawning hope the fish will also make a mass return to Idaho. More than 157,000 fish had been counted at Bonneville Dam on
Topflight science at Cambridge University has weighed into the ever-louder and more unruly climate/energy debate with several things that so far have been mostly lacking: hard numbers, willingness to upset all sides, and an attempt to weigh agendas
A look into the science behind Global Warming. This is a science that has been funded to the tune of almost a billion dollars alone just to set up models to "prove" that CO2, one of nature's important building blocks is viewed as dangerous.
While the science of how CO2 and other greenhouse gases causes warming is fairly well understood, this core process only results in limited, nuisance levels of global warming.
Science has no need of tribunals or trials, no need of Nuremberg justice, or analogies with the Holocaust. James Hansen's words this week were an offence, an offence against inquiry, against science, against moral seriousness.
Volcanoes and hot springs could supply up to 25 per cent of America's power needs, energy experts have said. As fuel prices soar, Alaskan officials announced the exploration of the state's volcanoes, saying they could be
Every climate scientist knows there's been no -- zero -- net change in surface temperatures in the last ten years, as shown in the climate history of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
By Paul Eccleston
Last Updated: 2:01pm BST 27/06/2008
Ice at the North Pole may disappear completely within the next few months for the first time in 20,000 years