Category Archives: IPCC AR5 leak

IPCC’s AR5 Frankenscience – bringing proxies back from the dead

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

Josh writes: Steve McIntyre has a hilarious post on the desperate measures needed to get some non peer reviewed papers into the IPCC’s AR5. I am not sure where the phrase ‘Frankenscience’ comes from but it seems appropriate for AR5 which … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann says climate models cannot explain the Medieval Warming Period – I say they can’t even explain the present

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Ice core data shows CO2 levels changed less than 10 parts per million from 1600-1800 during the MWP. From the Hockey Schtick:  A new paper from Schurer et al (with Mann as co-author) finds that climate “models cannot explain the warm … Continue reading →

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UV shift in the leaked IPCC report: more inversion of the scientific method

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls A Fox News story on the leaked draft of AR5 got big attention through the Drudge Report the other week. Fox reporter Maxim Lott begins by quoting a sentence from the Second Order Draft that … Continue reading →

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BREAKING: an encouraging admission of lower climate sensitivity by a ‘hockey team’ scientist, along with new problems for the IPCC

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

UPDATE: Annan now suggests the IPCC “is in a bit of a pickle”, see below. UPDATE2: Title has been changed to reflect Annan’s new essay, suggesting lying for political purposes inside the IPCC. Also added some updates about Aldrin et … Continue reading →

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The ‘good IT fairy’ follows the ‘Secret Santa’ IPCC AR5 leak

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Yesterday in the major WUWT story More IPCC AR5: THE SECRET SANTA LEAK  Donna asked: If anyone has the technical skill to make all of this data available – and searchable – online, that would be welcome, … Continue reading →

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Josh on the IPCC AR5 leak #2

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Leak #2 shows it is no longer a grey area… 

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More IPCC AR5: THE SECRET SANTA LEAK

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Guest post by Donna Laframboise Thanks to a whistleblower, draft versions of most chapters of the IPCC’s upcoming report are now in the public domain. Among the new revelations: the IPCC has learned nothing from the Himalayan glacier debacle, bringing … Continue reading →

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AR5 Chapter 11; Hiding the Decline (Part II)

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

Guest post by David M. Hoffer In my first two articles on the leaked AR5 Chapter 11 (near-term projections) I looked at the caveats with which the IPCC is now surrounding their projections, and the lengths to which they are … Continue reading →

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IPCC AR5 Chapter 11 – Maintaining the Spin

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

Guest post by David M. Hoffer In my first article on the leaked AR5 Chapter 11 draft, I focused on the extraordinary lengths to which the IPCC has gone to surround their projections with caveats that make it nearly impossible … Continue reading →

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IPCC Chapter 11 – Bankruptcy Protection

Posted on December 23, 2012 by

Guest post by David M. Hoffer IPCC reports AR1 through 4 were published in relative obscurity. ClimateGate and the emergence of the blogosphere as the primary forum for debate of the science and public policy intersection changed all that. AR4 … Continue reading →

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Joe Romm demonstrates himself to be an angry know-nothing in his attack on Matt Ridley’s WSJ essay – Ridley responds

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Guest post by Matt Ridley Joe Romm of ThinkProgress described my Wall Street Journal op-ed as: riddled with basic math and science errors Yet he fails to find a single basic math or science error in my piece. He says … Continue reading →

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Haigh Anxiety: a psycho-comedy of errors

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls In an interview with NewScientist magazine, Imperial College professor of atmospheric physics Joanna Haigh scoffs at the idea that late 20th century warming could have been caused by the sun: Haigh points out that the … Continue reading →

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Climate sensitivity low, alarmist sensitivity high

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Reactions are coming in worldwide worldwide to figure 1.4 of the IPCC AR4 draft report. and the revelation that climate sensitivity is lower by aerosol analysis than the IPCC officially projects. Hotheads are blowing gaskets because the hot air just … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Dr. Judith Curry on the AR5 Draft leak

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

Dr. Judith Curry on the AR5 Draft leak:

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Why doesn’t the AR5 SOD’s climate sensitivity range reflect its new aerosol estimates?

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

This article is a detailed complement to Matt Ridley’s Op-Ed today in the Wall Street Journal: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change Evidence points to a further rise of just 1°C by 2100. The net effect on the planet … Continue reading →

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Dr. David Whitehouse on the AR5 figure 1.4

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Dr. David Whitehouse of the GWPF expounds on the “prime statistic of global warming” graph and its failure, as first reported here. The Leaked AR5 Report And Global Temperature Whatever one’s view about the leaking of the draft IPCC AR5 … Continue reading →

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Another example of clear failure of IPCC models to predict reality in the AR5 draft

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

One of the regular alarm stories that comes from the global warming machine is that atmospheric methane with soon run amok and cause a tipping point. We are regularly treated to scare stories like this one from The Guardian on … Continue reading →

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A rebuttal to Steven Sherwood and the solar forcing pundits of the IPCC AR5 draft leak

Posted on December 16, 2012 by

Teaming up with Jo Nova to answer The Team down under: “Professor Sherwood is inverting the scientific method” Guest post by Alec Rawls My leak of the draft IPCC report emphasized the chapter 7 admission of strong evidence for solar … Continue reading →

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Hypocritical psychology professor Lewandowsky: Climate science is, like, super-transparent, only with lots of “confidential” documents; climate science is like gravity

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

From Tom Nelson, it was too good not to repost, especially when Lewandowsky hands out moral lessons while being immoral himself with his labeling skeptics as “moon landing deniers” with a gussed up survey and statistical slight of hand that … Continue reading →

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Another IPCC AR5 reviewer speaks out: no trend in global water vapor

Posted on December 14, 2012 by

New global water vapor findings contradict second draft of IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) Guest post by Forrest M. Mims III I was an “expert reviewer” for the first and second order drafts of the 2013 Intergovernmental Report on Climate … Continue reading →

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