A report by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER) is an astonishing rebuke to international pressure, and a vote of confidence in Japan's native marine and astronomical research. Publicly-funded science in the West uniformly backs the hypothesis that industrial influence is primarily responsible for climate change, although fissures have appeared recently. Only one of the five top Japanese scientists commissioned here concurs with the man-made global warming hypothesis. Three of the five researchers disagree with the UN's IPCC view that recent warming is primarily the consequence of man-made industrial emissions of greenhouse gases.

The report was published last month but there has been very little press coverage - not a surprise given the current vested interests in setting up a global surveillance system in the name of carbon trading. The Register has therefore commissioned a translation of the report.

Much of it is just a plea for more scientific data and better modelling. It highlights the differences between models based on data and those that simulate physical processes. It stresses that anthropogenic global warming is still a hypothesis. Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, says that "Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth... The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken."

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