Climate change a con?

A damming new report says shoddy research practices and conclusions based on little evidence produce plenty of questions over the credibility of the world's leading climate change body.

This report from the UK says: "Among the blunders in the 2007 report were claims that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level when the figure is 26 percent.

"It also claimed that water supplies for between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa will be at risk by 2020 due to climate change, but the real range is between 90 and 220 million.

"The claim that glaciers would melt by 2035 was also rejected.

"Professor Julian Dowdeswell of Cambridge University said: “The average glacier is 1,000 feet thick so to melt one at 15 feet a year would take 60 years. That is faster than anything we are seeing now so the idea of losing it all by 2035 is unrealistic.”

You can read all about it in this UK report.