Scanning a number of newspapers around the world and listening to politicians shows a grim picture. Yes, the mistakes that have been made by the IPCC are serious ones and should be looked into. But the way that certain media and politicians are dealing with this is really typical. From a newspaper perspective I can kind of understand it, they need to sell papers and draw people to their website in order to survive and any kind of half-crisis will do to jump on and exploit. The fact that media have become so detached from a regular user-based income has resulted in this behaviour of scandal-hunting. Minor things are blown out of proportion on an ever further gliding scale of sensibility, all just to make that one-off buy of the newspaper at the stand or that one online view which enables them to sell adds and, let’s be realistic, keep journalists employed. Too bad these journalists are then ‘forced’ to drive this cheap journalistic approach.
Politicians is another story; it is amazing to watch how some parties (notable example the liberal party in the Netherlands) are racing to be in the headlines with examples of ‘strong measures’. One of them is proposing to postpone the work on the new water defences in the Netherlands until the IPCC reports have undergone serious investigation. This cannot be serious……The current minister for Environmental Affairs in the Netherlands, Mrs. Cramer, has stated she wants to have a full investigation into the workings of the IPCC.
How refreshingly different has been the reaction of her British colleague, Mr. Ed Milliband, who has stated that mistakes are part of science and that these little errors do nothing to change the broader picture; man is responsible for the large concentration of greenhouse gasses which will cause global warming. He further stated that the ‘science’ behind all these sceptics that are now standing on the barricades, wanting the IPCC to be removed all together, be looked at with the same rigor as these mistakes by the IPCC.
Every scientists will tell you there are mistakes in their work. It’s just how science works. Mistakes will be looked in and improved, resulting in better science.
Long story short – these mistakes don’t change the bigger picture. Let’s all go back to work and start doing something against climate change, rather than debating these errors as if this has changed the whole world and we can emit CO2 like in the good old days.
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