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past 16 years, there has been no significant increase in surface temperature … The IPCC
does not have a convincing or confident explanation for this hiatus in warming.'
Prediction: global warming will cause starvation
In 2001, the IPCC predicted global warming would 'affect wheat and, more severely, rice
productivity in India'. In 2012 the Australian Conservation Foundation claimed, 'it will be
less and less likely that we can feed the human population if climate change continues on
its present trajectory'.
Infact,since1960,globalwheatandriceproductionhastripled,andcornproductionis
almost five times higher. Record harvests were recorded over the past decade, including in
India.
Prediction: hurricanes and cyclones will get worse
In2006,Gore,in
An Inconvenient Truth
,claimedHurricaneKatrinawasevidenceofglobal
warming, adding, 'We have seen in the last couple of years, a lot of big hurricanes.' In
2011, Greens leader Bob Brown claimed Cyclone Yasi was caused by the coal mining
industry because 'it's the single biggest cause—burning coal—for climate change'.
In fact, in 2013 the IPCC admitted it had 'low' confidence in claims of 'large scale
changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900' and said the number
of cyclones and added that since hurricanes reaching land had fallen 'over periods of a
century or more, evidence suggests slight decreases in the frequency of tropical cyclones
making landfall in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific.' The Bureau of Meteorology
reports fewer cyclones reaching Australia.
Prediction: global warming will cause bigger hailstones
In 2007, Professor Ross Garnaut, the Rudd Government's chief global warming adviser,
ordered a steel roof for his Melbourne home, telling his local council global warming
would produce 'severe and more frequent hailstorms'.
In fact, the IPCC last year admitted, 'There is low confidence in observed trends in
small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms.'