https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/john-houghton-obituary/
By Paul Homewood
John Houghton was of course at the heart of the global warming deception from the very early days, as Chairman of the IPCC Working Group I for the first three Assessment Reports between 1990 and 2001.
It was under Houghton’s tenure in the First Assessment Report (FAR) that the process began of writing the all important Summary for Policymakers which did not reflect the detailed chapters.
Houghton’s Summary claimed it was confident that the increase in CO2 alone had been responsible for over half of the warming during the 20thC. Yet the main report was far more guarded and evenly flatly contradictory. But none of this stopped Houghton’s Summary demanding immediate reductions of 60% in emissions.
It was the FAR which included John Houghton’s own graph, showing that temperatures were higher in the Middle Ages than the 20thC. Yet by 2001, the same Houghton was giving Michael Mann’s hopelessly flawed hockey stick top billing, even being pictured in front of it long after it had been debunked.
The whole IPCC process was compromised from the start, thanks largely to the two men initially responsible for setting it up, Bert Bolin and John Houghton. It was regularly portrayed as the global authority on climate change, being made up of thousands of scientists from around the world.
In reality, most of the key contributors were drawn from a surprisingly small network of not more than a few dozen predominantly American and British academics and government employees, who were already as firmly committed as Bolin and Houghton to the belief that global warming was serious. Many of these came from Houghton’s own Hadley Centre.
We are still paying the cost of John Houghton’s obsession with climate change.
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My granddad died yesterday from COVID-19. He was an atmospheric physicist and committed Christian who devoted his career to climate justice, including chairing the IPCC and changing the mind of a major U.S. evangelical lobbyist. I want to tell you a bit about his life's work.
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In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created. He was chair or co-chair of the IPCC's scientific assessment working group until 2002 and lead editor of the first 3 IPCC reports.
— Hannah Malcolm (@hannahmmalcolm) April 16, 2020
In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming. Cizik became convinced that environmentalism should become part of the evangelical agenda, leading to years of backlash from conservative American evangelicals.
— Hannah Malcolm (@hannahmmalcolm) April 16, 2020
When I was younger, my consistent memory of him was warnings over the devastation waiting us if we didn't act on climate change. And I remember thinking how glad I was that scientists like him were in charge. But of course it isn't the scientists in charge.
— Hannah Malcolm (@hannahmmalcolm) April 16, 2020
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” — Sir John Houghton, First chairman of IPCC
— Paul Hughes (@PaulHughes11vic) June 3, 2018
IPCC's John Houghton: "…the summary *for* policy makers became the summary *of* the policy makers: it was the… http://t.co/8tGBJ4q8
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) January 23, 2013
#agw : The Reference Frame: John Houghton about ecofanatics: annotated versionThis railway engineer is politically… http://bit.ly/9gx4MD
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) March 15, 2010
#agw : [Climate fraudster John Houghton suggests that climate skeptics tremble at the thought of confronting his s… http://bit.ly/cVvsfm
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) April 11, 2010
#climatethanks IPCC's Houghton: "pray" that Day After Tomorrow movie will cause rich people to pick up Jesus' message http://t.co/XDuyAR9a1M
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) December 1, 2013
Here's Houghton selling anti-science BS in 2005: https://t.co/Dm4XAg1sA9 https://t.co/BfGQCGllX5 pic.twitter.com/E0gHNzdoxl
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