Tag Archives: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

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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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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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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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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Making Hay of sea level rise estimates

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

People send me stuff. You may recall this story from last week that raised a number of eyebrows due to the claims made within it by author William Hay. Dave Burton decided to take him to task. So far no … Continue reading →

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Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, which asks the question, Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity? This is threshold question to which many who believe global … Continue reading →

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How the IPCC handles ignores factual author corrections in AR4

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Since the errors in IPCC AR3 were outed, there’s been this general view from the skeptical climate community at large and here on WUWT that the IPCC is collectively an elitist, pigheaded, organization, resistant to change.  Recall ‘Voodoo Science’, as … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Judith Curry weighs in on BEST

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Whoo boy. Judith writes: Muller bases his ‘conversion’ on the results of their recent paper?

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What else did the ’97% of scientists’ say?

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods I wonder just how many politicians, environmentalists or scientists who use the phrase ’97% of scientists’ (or those who more carefully use ‘active climate scientists’) to give weight to their arguments regarding climate change to the public, have any idea … Continue reading →

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Throwing down the gauntlet on reproducibility in Climate Science – Forest et al. (2006)

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

After spending a year trying to get the data from the author without success, Nic Lewis has sent a letter to the editor of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and has written to me to ask that I bring attention to … Continue reading →

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Don’t worry about the ickle birdies

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Rio de Janeiro “BUT what about the ickle birdies?” wailed the ancient, off-blonde representative of the planet’s indigenous peoples in the shapeless, grimy, crumpled eco-sackcloth shift that is de rigueur this season among the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with … Continue reading →

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New modeling analysis paper by Ross McKitrick

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Dr. McKitrick’s new paper with Lise Tole is now online at Climate Dynamics. He also has an op-ed in the Financial Post on June 13. A version with the citations provided is here. Part II is here online, and the … Continue reading →

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The Very Model Of A Modern Major Problem

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

Reposted from The GWPF by Dr. David Whitehouse There has been some discussion about a paper in Nature Climate Change by Gleckler et al that says they detect “a positive identification (at the 1% level) of an anthropogenic fingerprint in … Continue reading →

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March 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update – A New Look

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE ADDITION OF CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) HINDCASTS/PROJECTIONS TO GRAPHS I’ve added a new feature to the graphs of the monthly sea surface temperature updates on a trial basis, and it is the multi-model mean of … Continue reading →

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New and Improved CRUTEM4 Global Land Surface Temperature Data vs IPCC AR4 (CMIP3) Climate Models

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION Chapter 4-7 of If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? included comparisons of the CRUTEM3 Land Surface Temperature anomalies to the multi-model mean … Continue reading →

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Lower Climate Sensitivity Estimates: New Good News

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Guest post by Chip Knappenberger, republished with permission from Master Resource (now on WUWT’s blogroll) “A collection of research results have been published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in recent months that buoys my hopes for a low-end climate sensitivity.” … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Impacts In The USA are Already (NOT) Happening

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. Many government reports by NASA, NOAA, EPA, USFWS, USFS, USDA and other agencies mention that climate change impacts are already observable in the USA. This is discussed in the context of endangered species conservation, forest resource … Continue reading →

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Day of reckoning draws nearer for IPCC

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

According to Dr. Clive Best, A key prediction from the 2007 IPCC WG1 report fails statistical tests. AR4 figure for long term predictions for each scenario Abstract: Global temperatures measured since 2005 are incompatible with the IPCC model predictions made … Continue reading →

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“Climate Deniers” Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

By S. Fred Singer Gallia omnia est divisa in partes tres.  This phrase from Julius Gaius Caesar about the division of Gaul nicely illustrates the universe of climate scientists — also divided into three parts.  On the one side are … Continue reading →

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