IPCC Ordered Climate Modelers to Conform to Consensus
Ever wonder why all the climate models show the same thing. It ain’t science, it’s politics.
The IPCC pressed the modelers to work out a consensus on a specific range of possibilities to be published in the 2007 report. The work was grueling. After a group had invested so much of their time, energy, and careers in their model, they could become reluctant to admit its shortcomings to outsiders and perhaps even to themselves. A frequent result was “prolonged and acrimonious fights in which model developers defended their models and engaged in serious conflicts with colleagues” over whose approach was best.(111) Yet in the end they found common ground, working out a few numbers that all agreed were plausible.
