The food chain will be affected. The report was used as the basis for the 1997 Climate Summit in Kyoto, Japan, where industrialised states were under pressure to set targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The balance of evidence, from changes in global mean surface air temperature and from changes in geographical seasonal and vertical patterns of atmospheric temperature, suggests a discernible human influence on global it said. But not everyone agrees. One prominent atmospheric physicist in the United States, Dr S. Fred Singer, described the report as dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective and economically destructive.
Singer is a veteran of all things atmospheric.
Not only does Singer dispute that mankind is to blame, he disputes the very climactic data and computer modelling on which the panel and other greenhouse doomsayers base their dire predictions. He has accused the panel of unannounced and unauthorised changes to the part of the report that deals with the measurement and responsibility for global warming, claiming the report was changed after the draft report had been approved by government delegations. According to Singer, More serious than the clandestine alterations of the panel report has been the misuse of that report in advancing the political agenda of the global bu reaucracy. His foundation, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, reports that he and his board alleged the conclusions of the panel had been deliberately distorted for political and ideological purposes. Singer found 100 climate scientists who were prepared to sign a statement, dubbed the Leipzig Declaration, attesting much of the panel's work to be flawed.