Several thousand atmospheric physists, climatologists, meteorologists, and other scientists with similar envrionmental credentials from around the world have maintained from the start that the UN "study" was seriously flwed, and even deliberately biased in order to provide a basis for increased governmental controls over industries and ordinary citizens. The computer models that were used to provide study results that blamed human activity for alleged global warming and forecast calamities inthe coming years have been proven to be completely inaccurate. The fact that the global temperatures have not risen since 1998 ), but have actually declined (contrary to the models' predictions0, bears out the forecast models' inherent flaws. Many climatologists now predict a 2 or 3 decade cooling period should be expecetd.