I got this e-mailed to me by a friend, (guy I know) who's a researcher at Oxford university. This site, which is run by climate researchers at Oxford is leading a rebellion among researchers there and around the globe.

http://climateprediction.net/

Their claim is that researchers are now being steam-rolled by politicians into uncritically accepting the IPCC report as gospel, no matter what. Dissent is growing and a large number of researchers reject parts of it.

It's as if our two options on this are ...:

1) to latch onto one climate Bible at a time and brand non-believers has heretics/multinational corporations/ignorant

or

2) reject any environmental policies, on the grounds that scientists can't agree about everything.

Granted that tax payers money is used to implement environmental policies and the average voter is a moron who cannot understand issues not dealing with absolutes...but to take the reality of politics and pretend like it makes sense in the real world... and on top of that force it on researchers...is according to the researchers at Oxford..what is happening.

Just because there is disagreement about details doesn't mean global warming isn't happening. Their point is that if we don't grant researchers money to attack the IPCC report, we won't know how accurate it is. Above all, they think it is wrong scaring people about stuff we aren't sure about.

The fact that releasing carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will in some way shift the balance and is best avoided, is a no brainer. But from that infer that we need to live in fear of the coming tsunamis and dramatically rising sea levels ... is a bit premature.

People like drama so news is dramatic ... but it's always good to know that a drama ... is only partly reality.

It's a very educational site...and don't forget that its written by real climate researchers.