An extract from the BBC News story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7081331.stm

VIEWPOINT By John Christy Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama

"The IPCC is a framework around which hundreds of scientists and other participants are organised to mine the panoply of climate change literature to produce a synthesis of the most important and relevant findings.

While most participants are scientists and bring the aura of objectivity, there are two things to note:

this is a political process to some extent (anytime governments are involved it ends up that way)

scientists are mere mortals casting their gaze on a system so complex we cannot precisely predict its future state even five days ahead

The political process begins with the selection of the Lead Authors because they are nominated by their own governments.

Thus at the outset, the political apparatus of the member nations has a role in pre-selecting the main participants.

But, it may go further.

Unsound bites

At an IPCC Lead Authors' meeting in New Zealand, I well remember a conversation over lunch with three Europeans, unknown to me but who served as authors on other chapters. I sat at their table because it was convenient.

After introducing myself, I sat in silence as their discussion continued, which boiled down to this: "We must write this report so strongly that it will convince the US to sign the Kyoto Protocol."
Politics, at least for a few of the Lead Authors, was very much part and parcel of the process. "

These are refreshing words of dissent from within the camp of the global warming orthodoxy.
This article is proof from an insider that the climate change agenda has been politically skewed by those who have a hatred of all Capitalism and of America in particular.

As Satanists we should hold that all orthodoxies are false and should be challenged.  The danger otherwise is that facts will be shoehorned into the permittted ideologies and what the extreme left failed to achieve by class war and revolution, they will achieve with the cod science of global warning and the guilt of the middle classes.