Last night I pointed out how NASA had quietly purged IPCC AR4 referenced glacier melting claims from its climate.nasa.gov website, especially since they upped the year from 2035 to 2030 on their own. Now Roger Pielke Jr. points out that another curious purge has been spotted:
Excerpts:
There is another important story in involving the Muir-Wood et al. 2006 paper that was misrepresented by the IPCC as showing a linkage between increasing temperatures and rising damages from extreme weather events. The Stern Review Report of the UK government also relied on that paper as the sole basis for its projections of increasing damage from extreme events. In fact as much as 40% of the Stern Reivew projections for the global costs of unmitigated climate change derive from its misuse of the Muir-Wood et al. paper.
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As I was preparing this post, I accessed the Stern Review Report on the archive site of the UK government to capture an image of Table 5.2. Much to my surprise I learned that since the publication of my paper, Table 5.2 has mysteriously changed! Have a look at the figures below.
The figure immediately below shows Table 5.2 as it was originally published in the Stern Review (from a web archive in PDF), and I have circled in red the order-of-magnitude error in hurricane damage that I document in my paper (the values should instead by 10 times less).
Now, have a look at the figure below which shows Table 5.2 from the Stern Review Report as it now appears on the UK government archive (PDF), look carefully at the numbers circled in red:
There is no note, no acknowledgment, nothing indicating that the estimated damage for hurricanes was modified after publication by an order of magnitude. The report was quietly changed to make the error go away. Of course, even with the Table corrected, now the Stern Review math does not add up, as the total GDP impact from USA, UK and Europe does not come anywhere close to the 1% global total for developed country impacts (based on Muir-Wood), much less the higher values suggested as possible in the report’s text, underscoring a key point of my 2007 paper.
I’m betting that instituions around the world are working fast to distance themselves from some of the IPCC claims. We’ll likely see more of this.
DirkH (13:58:44) :
What a dumba*s. Should proofread his website.
“A science journalist […]looks for the truth
”
and spreads wrong numbers. Well – not that different from other journalists.
I posted advising him that if he needs a clue about glaciers, he should buy today’s telegraph, not tomorrows Guardian.
@DavidS
The Royal Society website content on Climate Change has changed significantly.
Look at this: http://web.archive.org/web/20080801095510rn_1/royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=6229
That was from August 2008.
Now try to find anything like that on the current website.
That (extinct) page contains all of the fallacious arguments, with no real basis for any of them, just rote repetition of the party line.
I am not surprised that it is gone. For an organization like The Royal Society to have perpetuated such myths was a REAL travesty!
They dodge, they duck, they weave – then fall flat on their faces.
It’s quite hard to lie in a consistent way, and failing to admit mistakes by just changing the implicated document fols no-one.
These guys are real desperate now!
Good Lord… can any IPCC assertion whatsoever withstand the most minimal scrutiny, beginning with simple arithmetic? Such incredibly feckless, sloppy work is apparently not Pachauri’s exception but the IPCC rule. Occurs to us that we could post an item in some mass-media venue, notify Rajendra’s slippery acolytes, and watch for it to appear as duly vetted and reviewed in the UN’s upcoming Fifth Assessment Report. How about, “‘Locust infestations, rains of blood all tie to AGW,’ says Nostradamus, acting Chief Scientist of Zone 6 in Alamagordo, AZ”?
For decades now, since Dag Hammarskjold’s assassination in the Congo in 1964, the UN has progressively [intended] aggravated or engendered major crises from fostering Palestinian terrorists to colluding with France in the Rwandan democide of April 11, 1994. We are not alone in thinking that dissolving this peculating forum of kakistocrats is much overdue.
Please, pay up now before the bubble bursts !!
BBC
Thank you Anthony for working hard during this Sunday.
DavidS (14:21:12) :
Chums,
Several weeks ago, before the big freeze here and before glaciergate, I thought I saw on the UK Royal Society website links to a page of specific climate events and natural disasters caused by AGW. This page doesn’t seem to exist any more. Perhaps it was just a dream. Did anyone else have the same dream?
DavidS
Yea if the link below dated 03/12/2009 12:01:26 is the one you are referring to, I think its still there
Heading ‘Climate Change’
http://royalsociety.org/LandingPage_WF.aspx?pageid=7355&terms=global+warming
but I wonder if they will need to do a little Blairism on it in light of recent revelations.
” Dr Tom (13:07:08) :
Clearly the Mainstream Media, the scientific media, and legislative commitees have simply accepted, as gospel, IPCC pronouncements.
What we need is to continue the kind of thorough evalution of IPCC science and economics as WUWT, Climate Audit, and others have been doing. ”
Is that kind of thorough evaluation called “peer review” ?
Ron de Haan (14:49:13) :
In the meantime the Green nonsense continues:
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/01/19/greenies-next-target-your-lawn/
Tried to link to the above site and received a warning from Virgin Net that it is a fraudulent site ?
http://block.telewest.freedom.net/client/8/content/Virgin/antifraud/en/af_blocked.html?blocked_domain=68656C696F67656E69632E6E6574,blocked_url=1,ask_password=0,blocked_url_text=687474703A2F2F7777772E68656C696F67656E69632E6E65742F323031302F30312F31392F677265656E6965732D6E6578742E2E2E,report_false_positive_link=6D61696C746F3A66726175647265706F72744076697267696E6D656469612E636F6D
Message if you don’t want to look your self
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“Hear you, sir;
What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day.”
Hamlet
“Curiouser and Curiouser”
The final battle will be against Hansen’s NASA… that is the one that truth really must win. Otherwise, lie will prevail, I’m afraid.
Ron de Haan (14:49:13) :
In the meantime the Green nonsense continues:
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/01/19/greenies-next-target-your-lawn/
When you plant a fresh lawn add and till in at least 3″ of compost into the soil before reseeding, leave the soil line 2″ below the concrete driveway and sidewalks. Then instead of using chemicals to feed add 1/2″ of screened compost as a top dressing every fall, mow @4″ tall and leave the clippings.
This will allow for dense root growth, and leaving enough grass blade length after mowing, to produce rapid lush regrowth, better aeration, cheaper to maintain. Producing sod dense enough to stop weed invasions, limiting toxic chemicals needed.
Prevent CAGW pick up after you dog on walks??
All these lies by the warmists are sickening.
DavidS (14:21:12) : Several weeks ago… I thought I saw on the UK Royal Society website links to a page of specific climate events and natural disasters caused by AGW. This page doesn’t seem to exist any more. Perhaps it was just a dream. Did anyone else have the same dream?
Thanks David. This purge looks like it’s growing bigger. I put a link to the Royal Society page on Climate Change on our website over a year ago, under“Consensus websites…”. The link now gets redirected to the RS home page. Perhaps someone can use Google Cache here. The original page was http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=6229. RS appear to have no such page now. Oh oh oh, does that mean the RS are also purging the legacy of their iniquitous ex-PR man Bob Ward?
With all the data published on the web, it puts the Alamists in the position of the poor skinny stripper in “Das Boot”. When every garment has been shed, the drunken sailors (that’s us) throw pencils, cigarrettes and pocket combs on stage and yell, “quick, hide this”, untils she runs, sobbing with embarassment, from the scene.
I dunno, I just had that image pop up in my brain.
Hey, who are you calling weird!? 😉
I’d do my homework myself but here it’s late and time for me to turn in. Good luck – someone!
SheffieldB(aka Smallz79) (14:30:12) : “OT but any one notice that so far this year The Arctic Sea Ice extent growth is very slow and lagging behind the previous years? I wonder what could be the cause of this? Has there been a lot of ocean current turbulence and pattern changes (as far as wind, ocean current strength and extreme weather/storms) that could be causing this.”
SheffieldB: I have , as recently as yesterday, the suggestion that winds in the arctic have piled up ice, thus opening up open water and reducing the ice extent. I have no way to verify this and am as interested as you to know what is going on up there.
If http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php is correct, temperatures have been considerably below normal.
IanM
NASA going toward outsourcing.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704375604575023530543103488.html?mod=rss_US_News
Press officials for NASA and the White House have declined to comment. Industry and government officials have talked about the direction of the next NASA budget, but declined to be identified.
Disney studios has experience with Mickey Mouse and daffy Duck.
I can see Pee Wee Herman has time available on his schedule to substitute for James Hansen.
Peter of Sydney (13:43:12) :
Yes, it appears the dams have burst on the AGW hoax and fraud. I’m now convinced it has been a deliberate fraud, not a mistake. There has been far too many “mistkaes’ to be treated as just coincidence. No doubt there’s more to be revealed. What about the IPCC computer models predicting a global warming catastrophe? This should be the next falsehood to be revealed to the public. This will complete the show and force the IPCC to by shut down, and the chairman charged with several criminal offenses.
Who would have jurisdiction?
Yet more bad news for the EPA.
This Royal society must be a merry bunch of fools. Look here:
http://royalsociety.org/News.aspx?id=1023
They say that ocean acidification is irreversible. Wonder how that shall work.
BTW, It’s been goin from 8.12 to 8.08 in 2003 or so and then the trend reverses, i looked into IPCC AR4. So … ah wait… It reverses? Can’t be says the royal society…
@DirkH
“A science journalist […]looks for the truth and spreads wrong numbers. Well – not that different from other journalists.”
Maybe he’s a student of the Moonbat/Revkin school of journalistic integrity.
“AdderW (15:02:45) :
Please, pay up now before the bubble bursts !!
BBC
Rich nations urged to provide $10bn in climate funds ”
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Hand it over, hand it over, hand it over…
The TEAM lied.
The Climate died.
WWF, The IPCC’s favourite source
Via
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/
From Donna Laframboise’s site:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-dodgy-citations-in-nobel-winning.html
All told, an extensive list of documents created or co-authored by the WWF is cited by this Nobel-winning IPCC report:
* Allianz and World Wildlife Fund, 2006: Climate change and the financial sector: an agenda for action, 59 pp. [Accessed 03.05.07: http://www.wwf.org.uk/ filelibrary/pdf/allianz_rep_0605.pdf]
* Austin, G., A. Williams, G. Morris, R. Spalding-Feche, and R. Worthington, 2003: Employment potential of renewable energy in South Africa. Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Denmark, November, 104 pp.
* Baker, T., 2005: Vulnerability Assessment of the North-East Atlantic Shelf Marine Ecoregion to Climate Change, Workshop Project Report, WWF, Godalming, Surrey, 79 pp.
* Coleman, T., O. Hoegh-Guldberg, D. Karoly, I. Lowe, T. McMichael, C.D. Mitchell, G.I. Pearman, P. Scaife and J. Reynolds, 2004: Climate Change: Solutions for Australia. Australian Climate Group, 35 pp. http://www.wwf.org.au/ publications/acg_solutions.pdf
* Dlugolecki, A. and S. Lafeld, 2005: Climate change – agenda for action: the financial sector’s perspective. Allianz Group and WWF, Munich [may be the same document as “Allianz” above, except that one is dated 2006 and the other 2005]
* Fritsche, U.R., K. Hünecke, A. Hermann, F. Schulze, and K. Wiegmann, 2006: Sustainability standards for bioenergy. Öko-Institut e.V., Darmstadt, WWF Germany, Frankfurt am Main, November
* Giannakopoulos, C., M. Bindi, M. Moriondo, P. LeSager and T. Tin, 2005: Climate Change Impacts in the Mediterranean Resulting from a 2oC Global Temperature Rise. WWF report, Gland Switzerland. Accessed 01.10.2006 at http://assets.panda.org/downloads/medreportfinal8july05.pdf.
* Hansen, L.J., J.L. Biringer and J.R. Hoffmann, 2003: Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems. WWF Climate Change Program, Berlin, 246 pp.
* http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/our_solutions/business_industry/climate_savers/ index.cfm
* Lechtenbohmer, S., V. Grimm, D. Mitze, S. Thomas, M. Wissner, 2005: Target 2020: Policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. WWF European Policy Office, Wuppertal
* Malcolm, J.R., C. Liu, L. Miller, T. Allnut and L. Hansen, Eds., 2002a: Habitats at Risk: Global Warming and Species Loss in Globally Significant Terrestrial Ecosystems. WWF World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, 40 pp.
* Rowell, A. and P.F. Moore, 2000: Global Review of Forest Fires. WWF/IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 66 pp. http://www.iucn.org/themes/fcp/publications /files/global_review_forest_fires.pdf
* WWF, 2004: Deforestation threatens the cradle of reef diversity. World Wide Fund for Nature, 2 December 2004. http://www.wwf.org/
* WWF, 2004: Living Planet Report 2004. WWF- World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund), Gland, Switzerland, 44 pp.
* WWF (World Wildlife Fund), 2005: An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China. World Wildlife Fund, Nepal Programme, 79 pp.
* Zarsky, L. and K. Gallagher, 2003: Searching for the Holy Grail? Making FDI Work for Sustainable Development. Analytical Paper, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Switzerland