“A draft of a major report on climate change, due to be
published next year, has been leaked online. Climate-sceptic
bloggers have seized on it, claiming that it admits that much of
global warming has been caused by the sun's variability, not by
greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the report says nothing of
the kind,” reports New Scientist (UK). “I think the most
interesting aspect of how this has been blogged by the climate
deniers is that it reveals how deeply in denial they are,” said
Steve Sherwood, one of the authors of the report. The denialists
got it completely and obviously wrong in their misrepresentation
of scientific findings discussed in the draft IPCC Fifth
Assessment Report. Multiple sources of reporting and commentary
moved quickly to set the record straight. “A new IPCC report is
due next fall. Look for more attempts to muddy and confuse the
public about it," says Peter Sinclair at Climate Crocks. "The
reality-based community is, this time, prepared.” A partial
compendium of coverage and comme