Dennis Sweitzer wrote a very long rebuttal to my citation of Frederick Seitz's complaint re the published summary of the IPCC report on environmental studies.
I realize that sometimes in debates it is necessary to bring in lengthy quotes from several other persons, and desirable to untangle the he-said/she-said arguments. I have read Dennis's rather complicated post, and I still have this rather simple question: Were the following three statements, which Seitz says were in the *summary* he saw, reflected in the *published* summary?
******* *"None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed [climate] changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases."
*"No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic [man-made] causes."
*"Any claims of positive detection of significant climate change are likely to remain controversial until uncertainties in the total natural variability of the climate system are reduced." *******
This is a very important matter. We are talking about conclusions made by a world-famous scientific panel about *many* scientific studies--not just one study--made over a period of several years. It is not relevant that Seitz is associated with such-and-such a society, and that another society disagrees. It is not relevant that someone else attempted to defend Seitz. The question remains:
Were these three statements in the summary to which Seitz lent his name reflected in the published summary?
Russ
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