Rumor has it that Congress is ready to take another stab at ‘cap and tax’ in the coming weeks.  The tax scheme would put a cap on carbon emissions all in an attempt to stem the purported dangers of manmade climate change. 

Leading up to this, we have seen the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declare that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a dangerous gas thus giving itself the power to regulate it, with or without Congress’ permission. 

In its so-called ‘endangerment finding’ the EPA cites the work of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and specifically the IPCC’s AR4 report.  That report has been considered the ‘gold standard’ in climate research. 

In recent months that gold appears to be more made of lead as revelations of errors in the document continue to be discovered.  Now, a group of citizens has gone through the more than 3,000 page document and found that in addition to its inaccuracies, the report has nearly 5,600 questionable citations that fail to meet peer-reviewed status. 

As the Climate Change Examiner writes:

An analysis of the document by the website NOConsensus.org has found more than a few non-peer reviewed citations. In fact, it found nearly 5,600 of them with some chapters having 85% of their reference material from questionable sources.

Based on a traditional A through F grading scale, the group says that AR4 would receive a solid F in 21 out of the 44 chapters. Those chapters had less than 59% of their citations from peer reviewed sources.  Four others would get D’s, six would receive C’s, five B’s and only eight A’s.

Read the complete story here: U.N. climate panel’s work graded – Receives failing score