IPCC report is 'full of hocus pocus science', claim sceptics He said: "[The IPCC] is increasing alarmism [while] the evidence is getting weaker and weaker... This is hocus pocus science and the IPCC report is full of it. It was in the interests of governments to agree that climate change was man-made because it was a vote-winner, Prof Carter argued. "The greens are incredibly influential," he said. Education systems were being "controlled" and young people were being subjected to propaganda about climate change science, he claimed. "It's a religion, in fact, that has to be challenged," he said. According to the NIPCC's report, it is wrong to assume that the Earth had a stable climate before the industrial revolution. Climate has always changed and always will, it argues. Attempting to stop climate change is therefore an "expensive act of utter futility," the sceptics suggest. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, meanwhile, is not a pollutant but of benefit to humankind, they claim. But Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and one of the lead authors of the IPCC report, said hundreds of scientists had reached their conclusions on man-made climate change "after careful consideration of all the available evidence." She said: "The human influence on climate change is clear and dominant. The atmosphere and oceans are warming, the snow cover is shrinking, the Arctic sea ice is melting, sea level is rising, the oceans are acidifying, and some extreme events have increased. CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels need to substantially decrease to limit climate change.