Japan's boffins: Global warming isn't man-made

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By Andrew Orlowski

Japanese scientists have made a dramatic break with the UN and Western-backed hypothesis of climate change in a new report from its Energy Commission.

Three of the five researchers disagree with the UN's IPCC view that recent warming is primarily the consequence of man-made industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. Remarkably, the subtle and nuanced language typical in such reports has been set aside.

One of the five contributors compares computer climate modelling to ancient astrology. Others castigate the paucity of the US ground temperature data set used to support the hypothesis, and declare that the unambiguous warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century has ceased.

The report by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER) is astonishing rebuke to international pressure, and a vote of confidence in Japan's native marine and astronomical research. Publicly-funded science in the West uniformly backs the hypothesis that industrial influence is primarily responsible for climate change, although fissures have appeared recently. Only one of the five top Japanese scientists commissioned here concurs with the man-made global warming hypothesis.

JSER is the academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields, and acts as a government advisory panel. The report appeared last month but has received curiously little attention. So The Register commissioned a translation of the document - the first to appear in the West in any form. Below you'll find some of the key findings - but first, a summary.

<snip> - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/ for Summary

4. Conclusion: Anthropogenic global warming theory still hypothetical

To summarize the discussion so far, compared to accurately predicting solar eclipses by celestial mechanics theoretical models, climate models are still in the phase of reliance on trial and error experiential models. There are still no successful precedents. The significance of this is that climate change theory is still dominated by anthropogenic greenhouse gas causation; the IPCC 4th Evaluation Report's conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to continuously, monotonously increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis; it will be necessary investigate further and to evaluate future predictions as subject to natural variability.

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1. Japan Society of Energy and Resources?!

Why is it always groups that deal with underground stuff telling us how the above-ground stuff works?

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3. Japan imports almost all energy resources

They have some minimal amount of coal reserves, but these are uneconomic to mine. They have no oil or gas.

They have a well developed nuclear power industry, and are heavily supporting fusion research.

It's unclear why they would be biased towards oil and coal as an energy source.

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2. flat earthers are everywhere. nt

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4. Yeah, and the Japanese whaling fleet

is performing scientific research.

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5. Ultimatly, why does it matter?

Lets assume for a minute that they dudes are right, that global warming is not man-made and just part of a greater cycle of warming that happens naturally. Does that make it any less dangerous?

Even if it weren't man-made (and again, I'm just speculating here), I don't think that makes having cetral Pennsylvania turned into beach front and Tokyo under 20 feet of Pacific Ocean and more desireable, right?

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6. Corporate shills

Check their web site

And even at that only
"Three of the five researchers disagree"

I would still hesitate to buy ocean-front property.

Ciao.