Climate Change Reconsidered This 880-page rebuttal of the Fourth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), three years in the making, was released in June
2009 by The Heartland Institute. Coauthored and edited by S.
Fred Singer, Ph.D., and Craig Idso, Ph.D. and produced with
contributions and reviews by an international coalition of
scientists, it provides an independent examination of the
evidence available on the causes and consequences of climate
change in the published, peer-reviewed literature examined
without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers
ignored by the IPCC plus additional scientific results that
became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006. Chapter 1
describes the limitations of the IPCC s attempt to forecast
future climate with computer models. The IPCC violates many of
the rules and procedures required for scientific forecasting,
making its projections of little use to policymakers. Chapter 2
describes feedback factors that reduce the