Category Archives: IPCC

Monckton challenges the IPCC – suggests fraud – and gets a response

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

The IPCC fraud case (but not the planet) hots up Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Two weeks ago I reported the central error in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007) to its secretariat. After the contributing scientists had … Continue reading →

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Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

UPDATE from Girma: “My title should have been ‘How to arrive at IPCC’s climate sensitivity estimate’ instead of the original” Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD 1) IPCC’s 0.2 deg C/decade warming rate gives a change in temperature of dT … Continue reading →

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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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The effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas becomes ever more marginal with greater concentration

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

The political target of limiting the effect of Man-made global warming to only +2⁰C can never be attained. Guest essay by Ed Hoskins According to well understood physical parameters, the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas diminishes logarithmically with … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking IPCC’s warming predictions

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The IPCC’s forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report continues to suggest that the Earth will warm rapidly in the 21st century. How far are its projections short of observed reality? A monthly benchmark graph, circulated widely to … Continue reading →

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Monckton asks IPCC for correction to AR4

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

4 May 2013 IPCC Secretariat, Geneva Gentlemen, Request for correction of a serious inaccuracy in the contribution of Working Group 1 to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report   As an Expert Reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report, 2013, and in … Continue reading →

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The Sun Was in My Eyes – Was It More Likely Over the Past 3-Plus Decades?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

Alternate Title: On Pinker et al 2005 and the Positive Trend in the NCEP-DOE Reanalysis-2 Surface Downward Solar Radiation Flux Over at Tallbloke’sTalkshop, Tallbloke has a post about the Pinker et al 2005 paper “Do Satellites Detect Trends in Surface … Continue reading →

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Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, IPCC, James Hansen, Positive effects of CO2, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 61 Comments

Here’s a chance for Michael Mann to get his own Nobel Prize medal

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

After being told by the IPCC in no uncertain terms that he can’t make claims like “Nobel Prize Winner”, now with enough cash, he could at least make the claim of Nobel Prize owner. It seems that one is for … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Image Credit: Jo Nova – David Lappi – GISP2 Your help is needed in building the new WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page. Below I’ve posted all of the credible 3rd party paleoclimate graphs I’ve compiled thus far, but I am sure … Continue reading →

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IPCC Railroad engineer Pachauri acknowledges ‘No warming for 17 years’

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Following my statement at the Doha climate conference last December that there had been no global warming for 16 years, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who for some reason chairs the IPCC’s … Continue reading →

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It’s the Sun stupid – The minor significance of CO2

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1 The IPCC’s Core Problem The IPCC  - Al Gore based  Anthropogenic Global Warming scare has driven global  Governments’ Climate and Energy Policies since the turn of the century. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been … Continue reading →

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New bill to limit IPCC funding from USA

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

Luetkemeyer Seeks to Prohibit Federal Funding for Job-Killing UN Climate Change Initiatives  WASHINGTON, D.C. _ Following last night’s State of the Union Address in which the president pledged to implement a job-killing climate change agenda, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) … Continue reading →

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Bombshell: IPCC chairman takes money from WWF

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Oh dear,  oh dear.  Donna Laframboise writes:

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Josh on lying for ‘the cause’

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

James Annan writes on his blog here: http://julesandjames.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-sensitive-matter.html “Interestingly, one of them stated quite openly in a meeting I attended a few years ago that he deliberately lied in these sort of elicitation exercises (i.e. exaggerating the probability of high sensitivity) … 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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Matt Ridley responds to Tim Lambert’s War @ Deltoid

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

Since it has been mostly silent in the last few months, I didn’t even know Deltoid blog was still up and running, but I’m happy to publish this rebuttal for Matt Ridley against Tim Lambert’s claim that Ridley was wrong … Continue reading →

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The other big story today: BBC forced to admit global warming ‘static’

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Forecast for warming revised downward. The UK Met Office has revised one of its forecasts for how much the world may warm in the next few years. It says that the average temperature is likely to rise by 0.43 C … 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 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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