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Updated: April 12, 2026 @ 5:22 pm
Editor,
Sue Lempert in her column of March 7 briefs us on the latest UN Climate report and exhorts mankind to stop warming or else. She includes in great detail the number of scientists involved, how the report is “comprehensive and balanced…scientifically rigorous, exhaustive, objective, transparent…”
She is mistaken on all counts. She is oblivious that esteemed scientists quit the UN climate panel when their opinions and report change requests were ignored.
She ignores the fact that the panel determined its conclusion on hurricanes based on 2 papers, ignoring 51 papers of the opposite view provided by a climate scientist who was previously on the panel.
She does not realize that the latest report by Working Group (WG) 2, that she so glowingly presents, gives the high confidence conclusion that warming causes flooding, ignoring its own WG1, who conclude there is low confidence (i.e. unlikely causality.)
The panel finds an increase in flood mortality from warming, but neglects to include that the paper cited to reach this conclusion admits the increase is due merely to better reporting.
It should be noted that it’s widely accepted that flooding mortality and economic losses from extreme weather are down significantly over the past four decades, a fact ignored by the UN panel.
No, this UN report is biased and unacceptable report, written by a government agency who has bullied the science community by cancelling those who disagreed, much as was done during the Climategate scandal 13 years ago.
The fox still guards the henhouse.
Bob Cohen
Menlo Park
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(2) comments
Well written, Mr. Cohen. Ms. Lempert is convinced our Make America Great Again President Trump is a Russian spy (see her op-ed this morning). That pretty much tells you all you need to know about Ms. Lempert. More interesting is whether Ms. Lempert walks the walk and actually does anything to reduce her carbon footprint, or like most global warming folks, just virtue signals and talks the talk.
This was an excellent letter with supporting facts that are always missing in liberal commentary. There is no climate crisis but there are many promising technologies that will be able to deliver reasonable priced green energy well before there is one. Most of the climate hype is used to raise money for Democrats. If there really was a crisis, Democrats would be lobbying for nuclear energy like all of France has. The UN knows from its studies that if there really was warming crisis that the world can be inexpensively cooled with inexpensive geo-engineering methods.
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