The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) recently referred to the new study released by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Center for Atmospheric Research which predicts that California will become hotter and drier by the end of the century as "the latest example of climate alarmists using junk science to make a political point."

"The climate models these researchers rely on have proven over and over to be entirely unreliable," said NCPA adjunct scholar S. Fred Singer. "They can't even reliably predict the present climate, but they know specifically what's going to happen to California in the future?"

According to NCPA, several studies have found the majority of the computer climate models used for the study to be "entirely ineffective," with one recent report by scientists from the Universities of Rochester and Virginia finding that "the most often-cited computer climate models used to assert that the introduction of greenhouse gases...into the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm differ starkly from the actual data of the past quarter-century."

Contact: Sean Tuffnell, NCPA, phone 800-859-1154, e-mail stuffnell@ncpa.org.