The establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to “assess the available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information” on climate change was endorsed by UN General Assembly on December 6, 1988 (resolution 43/53 presented by the government of Malta). [1, 2]
A few months earlier on June 23, 1988, James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) testified at the US Congressional hearing on Energy and Natural Resources and stated that he is 99 percent sure global warming is under way outside of normal variability of climate.
Maurice Strong, the founding director of UNEP wrote the terms of reference for the IPCC. The first term of reference was the “narrow” definition of climate change (@45:40) and “he deliberately limited it to human causes of climate change” thus eliminating all natural variability! [3]
“Following his exposure for bribery and corruption in the UN’s Oil-for-Food scandal Maurice Strong was stripped of many of his 53 international awards and honours he had collected during his lifetime working in dual role of arch conservationist and ruthless businessman” [5]
- Sometime in 1997, but definitely by January 14, 1998, James Hansen reported via email to Worldwatch, that NASA had changed the estimated average global temperature of 15 degrees Celsius to a lower “better base number” of 14 degrees Celsius, which instantly made the global average temperature reach a “record high” of 14.40°C in 1997! [4] What wasn’t clear was they changed the historical yearly records multiple times.
- In his 1993 book on page 83, Prof McMichael stated the “Average temperature over past 10,000 years = 15°C” – an inconvenient number if “Global Warming” was to be the agenda
- In 1991 the Club of Rome decided in their published report, that in the post Cold War era the “threat of global warming” would be the “new enemy to unite us” and that “humanity itself” would be “the real enemy”!