UN Abandons Science

By Paul Homewood

A damning piece by Roger Pielke Jr in the NY Post about the surrender of IPCC science to weather attribution zealots:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/opinion/un-abandons-science-and-hires-climate-change-zealots-who-damn-the-facts/

Pielke cuts to the quick:

“Because the IPCC has consistently failed to establish strong connections between greenhouse gas emissions and most types of extreme weather, a cottage industry of promotional studies has developed in its place.

“Extreme event attribution” was invented to circumvent the normal process of scientific peer review in order to have media impact and to support litigation against fossil fuel companies.

As Friederike Otto, the head of World Weather Attribution, explains, “Unlike every other branch of climate science or science in general, event attribution was actually originally suggested with the courts in mind.”

Otto, who argues in a new book that racism, colonialism, and sexism are the root causes of global warming, has just been appointed as co-lead of the forthcoming IPCC chapter on extreme weather.

In a press release, she explains that her leading role means that she has “a lot of opportunity to shape the structure and focus of the chapter” in the UN’s report.

Scientific assessments are supposed to accurately reflect the underlying peer-reviewed literature, and not to be shaped by the inclinations of its leaders — that’s how politics slips in.

By putting WWA and its fellow travelers in charge of the IPCC’s chapter on extreme events, the IPCC is signaling that media hits, climate litigation, and energy advocacy trump rigorous science.”