The IPCC 2007 report however said that the world had “suffered rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather-related events since the 1970s.”

Dr Muir-Wood condemned the way his evidence was quoted. “The idea that catastrophes are rising in cost partly because of climate change is completely misleading. We could not tell if it was just an association or cause and effect.

“Also, our study included 2004 and 2005 which was when there were some major hurricanes. If you took those years away then the significance of climate change vanished.”

The astonishing revelation follows the earlier news that the IPCC’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 was also untrue and based on “speculation” in an eight-year-old article in New Scientist magazine.

Nonetheless, both allegations featured prominently in the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report which has formed the basis of much of the current liberal frothing over “climate change.”

The allegation that natural disasters were worsening because of climate change was a major part of the recent fanatic-fest in Copenhagen. American president Barack Obama, for example, used the ‘natural disaster’ argument when he said “More powerful storms and floods threaten every continent.”

In Britain, climate change minister Ed Miliband last month blamed floods in Cumbria on global warming. “Events in Cumbria give a foretaste of the kind of weather runaway climate change could bring. Abroad, the melting of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great rivers of south Asia could put millions of people at risk of drought,” Mr Miliband said, repeating the rubbish and now proven lies put out by the IPCC.
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