All the years I’ve been in TV news, I’ve observed that every story has a tipping point. In news, we know when it has reached that point when we say it “has legs” and the story takes on a life of its own. The story may have been ignored or glossed over for weeks, months, or years until some new piece of information is posted and starts to galvanize people. The IPCC glacier melt scandal was the one that galvanized the collective voice that has been saying that the IPCC report was seriously flawed and represented a political rather than scientific view. Now people are seriously looking at AR4 with a critical eye and finding things everywhere.
Remember our friends at World Wildlife Fund? Those schlockmeisters that produced the video of planes flying into New York with explicit comparisons to 9/11?
Well it turns out that the WWF is cited all over the IPCC AR4 report, and as you know, WWF does not produce peer reviewed science, they produce opinion papers in line with their vision. Yet IPCC’s rules are such that they are supposed to rely on peer reviewed science only. It appears they’ve violated that rule dozens of times, all under Pachauri’s watch.
A new posting authored by Donna Laframboise, the creator of NOconsensus.org (Toronto, Canada) shows what one can find in just one day of looking.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-dodgy-citations-in-nobel-winning.html
Here’s an extensive list of documents created or co-authored by the WWF and cited by this Nobel-winning IPCC AR4 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
Finally, there are these authoritative sources cited by the IPCC – publications with names such as Leisure and Event Management:
- Jones, B. and D. Scott, 2007: Implications of climate change to Ontario’s provincial parks. Leisure, (in press)
- Jones, B., D. Scott and H. Abi Khaled, 2006: Implications of climate change for outdoor event planning: a case study of three special events in Canada’s National Capital region. Event Management, 10, 63-76
Not only should Pachauri resign, the Nobel committee should be deluged by world citizenry demanding they revoke the Nobel prize granted to the body that produced this document.
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Now normally I hang around here looking for mythological beasts, merminks and such.
But how kool is this, we arrgh finding missing links
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/our_solutions/business_industry/climate_savers/%20index.cfm
Leads to an apology and yeti foot prints.
similarly
http://www.wwf.org.au/%20publications/acg_solutions.pdf
more abominable foot prints but no report sightings
unless the links are broken.
But we are seeing a mass Yeti exodus.
Moderators snip if you like.
We call them Yowies in Oz.
It’s finally getting time on Australia’s ABC at last.
here’s Andy Pittman admitting that the sceptics are winning. The reason? because sceptics are heavily funded and they don’t have day jobs [[ rolleyes ]]
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2800538.htm
I hope someone downloaded all those originals.
This DOES SMACK of complete COLLUSION/CONSPIRACY. The “eyeblink” rapid removal of these links shows these people are SCARED feces-less.
Max
Is China getting ready to pull the plug?
“China admits ‘open attitude’ over warming
By Amy Kazmin in New Delhi
Published: January 24 2010 18:48 | Last updated: January 24 2010 18:48
China appeared to cast doubts on Sunday on the scientific consensus on the underlying causes of global warming, with a senior official saying that Beijing had an “open attitude” towards what he described as “disputes in the scientific community” on the issue.
“There is a view that climate change is caused by cyclical trends in nature itself,” Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of China’s National Development and Reforms Commission, told a press conference in New Delhi. “We have to keep an open attitude.””
24 Jan: India Times Blog: ‘Pachauri must quit’ campaign builds
UK newspapers including the ‘Telegraph’ and the ‘Times’ have now come out with the revelation that R K Pachauri used bogus claims of glaciers melting by 2035 to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Pachauri’s institute TERI was awarded two mammoth grants worth 310, 000 & 2.5 million pounds respectively. The first grant was awarded to TERI by the New York-based Carnegie Endowment Centre to research the potential security and humanitarian impact of glacial melt on the Himalayas.
The second grant was given to TERI by the EU to assess the impact of Himalayan glacial melt. ..
http://www.timesnow.tv/Pachauri-must-quit-campaign-builds/articleshow/4337039.cms
WWF – losing hearts and minds, 20 million at a time.
Here is a video showing off WWFs best scientists.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Un3Xb9JOg&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
So the IPCC is, in reality, a front for the WWF. Sounds like it’s long overdue to wheel out RICO.
Well wasn’t the UK Met Office chairman an ex-WWF?
“WWF strongly condemns this offensive and tasteless ad and did not authorize its production or publication. It is our understanding that it was a concept offered by an outside advertising agency seeking our business in Brazil. The concept was summarily rejected by WWF and should never have seen the light of day. It is an unauthorized use of our logo and we are aggressively pursuing action to have it removed from websites where it is being currently featured. We strongly condemn the messages and the images portrayed in this ad. On behalf of WWF, here in the US and around the world, we can promise you this ad does not in any way reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people of our organization.”
“Steve Goddard (19:51:36) :
WWF – losing hearts and minds, 20 million at a time.
Here is a video showing off WWFs best scientists.”
The kid at 2:09 has a globe with the oceans painted red; that must be earth after the oceans boiled off.
Some remarkable falsehoods from the WWF US Youtube channel.
“Scientist project that the summer sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean might be lost within a decade. Half of the heat produced on earth is created in the Arctic, resulting in accelerates climate change. ”
My first thought was:
More pics of Donna and less of Choo Choo Pachauri please ….
Petition appears at 10 Downing Street Website:
“THE UN climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. “
“The paper at the centre of the latest questions was written in 2006 by Robert Muir-Wood, head of research at Risk Management Solutions, a London consultancy, who became a contributing author on the IPCC report on climate change impacts.”
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But poof, the Wikipedia page for Risk Management Solutions disappeared 14 days ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_Management_Solutions
Risk Management Solutions
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00:04, 18 January 2010 Juliancolton (talk | contribs) deleted “Risk Management Solutions” (Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: Unambiguous advertising for a non-notable business. Provided references are to minor trade awards with no outside audience. Flagrant promotional PoV, claiming to b)
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Risk Management Solutions is run by:
Hemant Shah, President & Chief Executive Officer
Hemant Shah is President and CEO of Risk Management Solutions. Since co-founding RMS in 1989, Hemant has become widely recognized within the global insurance industry as a proactive and influential leader….
Hemant serves on the Board of Overseers of St. John’s School of Risk Management and Actuarial Science (College of Insurance), is a Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, a Director on the Board of RAND’s Institute for Civil Justice, and a Director of the Singapore-based Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies. “
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In case you missed that, Hemant Shah is a Director at a division of the RAND Corporation (http://www.rand.org) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND ).
The RAND Corporation is a major (some might say the major) global policy player. It includes people like: Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld.
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This Carbon thing could be a very well organized long term strategy that has been botched up by some rank amateurs that thought they could think on their own. It is clearly bigger than a few ‘climate scientists’, the WWF or the IPCC.
I bet the boss, whomever that might be, is furious.
Sean Peake (19:36:37) :
What is it with people from Toronto? First Steve M and now Donna L? I’m going to have to step up here and do my bit for our city.
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Donna Laframboise’s blog does not take comments, so just wanted to post a great big thanks to her here in case she comes and checks the comments here. Great job! Thanks for doing the e-equivalent of footwork in exposing the lousy basis for many of the IPCC’s AR4’S claims.
Sean – start by voting out our hyper-green city council members. Thank God Miller’s time is almost over! 🙂
I worked at WWF as a programmer back in my early 20s and I was still sort of naive about global warming and environmentalism in general. The job was located at their Washington, DC headquarters and I was hired to create a new database for their “Climate Savers” program. The idea was to keep better track of the enormous revenue streams that they’d extort from Fortune 500 companies in exchange for not waging organized media campaigns against them (Nike, HP, Dupont, etc).
Their Climate Change Department was staffed by creepy fanatics who would run around screaming about how Bush stole the election and other crazy things about whales and “climate justice”. I was young and didn’t know what to make of it all so I just shrugged it off. Anyway, the head of the Climate Change Department was this freaky woman named Jenifer Morgan. We just called her “the forehead” because of her massive forehead[1]. She threatened to leave DC if Bush was not impeached for war crimes. She kept her promise and got transfered to Bonn, Germany along with her personal assistants.
Last I heard, she no longer works for WWF but continues to fly all around the world on behalf of her new environmentalist NGO.
The WWF headquarters building was a state of the art corporate complex with lots of plants but of course they kept the AC cranked up full blast during the hot DC summer months. In the basement there was a modern gym that employees were encouraged to use so I started using it after work. A lot of these guys who were “campaigners” would blatantly hit on me but I’d just ignore them and keep to myself. Later I stopped going to the gym after I personally witnessed some sort of lurid gay sex going on in the locker room.
I left WWF shortly thereafter.
Anyway, the shocking fanaticism and hypocrisy that I’d witnessed made me curious to learn more about the issue of climate change and what it was all about. That was when I officially became a skeptic.
True story.
I’m not surprised about that sick 9/11 exploitation campaign they ran because many of them were openly anti-American and seemed to think Bush was the Anti-Christ. The young activists were mostly rich white kids whose parents were well connected with DC politics and/or old money families. They grew up in privileged environments completely insulated from the world at large. For some reason they were all obsessed with people like Noam Chomsky. That’s pretty much it.
Whew…It felt good to get that off my chest! 🙂 Any questions?
1. http://www.feem-web.it/potsdam/images/morgan.jpg
Judging by the funds WWF is able to lavish on outside organizations that are pro-CAGW, there seems a suspicious surplus of money for a charity that solicits donations to operate. Methinks they’re a political organization and their tax-free status as a charity needs to be challenged. There’s an unscrupulous beast lurking behind the face they show the public and they need a thorough investigation by the government tax collectors.
janama (19:44:28) : Great link
ELEANOR HALL: You say you are losing the debate. How worried are you about that?
ANDY PITMAN: It think it is potentially catastrophic….
These guys really talk like this.
The science is “settled”
Believe me, Nobel knew all about dynamite.
Please fix the “it’s” in the text. One or two in comments isn’t a problem but the one in the post ought to be correct. (third line from top)
Here’s a video of Rajendra Pachauri using the Himalayan glacier melt story as a primary talking point last year:
It’s not just WWF references, I see many others that link to non peer reviewed data… Some of them link to press releases and blog posts. The information may well be factual but it is sloppy to not reference the source but some webpage.
Remember that an illustrious patron of the WWF has expressed a wish to be reincarnated as a deadly virus, in order to reduce human population. Neither the patron nor the WWF have expressed “regret over any confusion this may have caused”. So their meaning is clear.
I’m an Australian and a monarchist…but the loathsome Duke of Edinburgh and his WWF should be treated as self-declared enemies of humanity.
Quote: Leon Brozyna (19:58:30) :
“So the IPCC is, in reality, a front for the WWF.”
Or perhaps a front for the internationalized world’s new saviour – Mr. Al Gore!
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel