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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The UN was founded in 1946 in bad faith, under extremely false pretenses, by Soviet agents-of-influence including FDR’s senior adviser Harry Hopkins and a treasonous State Department apparatchik named Alger Hiss. Since Dag Hammarskjold’s 1964 assassination the organization has consistently lurched far Left, celebrating vile Islamic anti-Semites, innumerable Statist creeps and thugs, while winking at Cambodian and Rwandan democides, Iranian and North Korean nuclear arsenals, racist satrapies from South Africa to Zimbabwe and parts east. Over the last fifty years, we literally cannot name a single instance of positive UN intervention; natural disasters from Haiti to Malaysia, mass-murder in Darfur, promote only graceless junkets to 5-star hotels at safe removes.
Allied with Kyoto asininities, Climategate, ongoing revelations of Green Gang propagandizing that would make Goebbels blush, after Copenhagen no UN-affiliated body has any slightest remaining credibility. IPCC’s peculating double-dealer Rajendra Pachauri should resign forthwith as chief bagman for Al Gore’s subversive Cap-and-Taxing gang of thieves.
By AD 2018, Ban Ki-moon’s stupefyingly corrupt and incompetent UN will likely have been disbanded like Woodrow Wilson’s beloved League, not with a bang but a whimper. Once Warmists can no longer shroud their death-eating Luddite ideology under a guise of “settled science”, reptilian elites will have to coil around alternative venues.
Here’s another video of Rajendra Pachauri using the Himalayan glacier melt story as a primary talking point last year:
Rajendra Pachauri seems very well informed about a subject he claims he was completely disassociated from…
janama:
The comment from Pitman about scientists efforts in the IPCC report being done out of hours and for no pay, is going to backfire, for one of two reasons:
Either he is lying, in which case they *are* being funded and so the lack of it can’t be used as an excuse for “losing” to skeptics (and I question how well most of the skeptics are being “funded” anyway), or a lack of funding for scientists efforts in the IPCC reports means that they have little or no motivation for diligence.
For the latter, policy makers having to rely on reports in that situation is nothing short of appalling. I can see the headline now: “Lead author of IPCC reports claims that reports are put together by volunteers in their spare time”
Pitman can’t have it both ways.
I’m reposting this comment because if true, it’s very important. An IPCC lead author part of a carbon trading group? That’s f-ed up!
“The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html#ixzz0dUoPiTkG
Is it this Dr Murari Lal?
From the WWF web site:
Climate Witness Science Advisory Panel (SAP)
Prof. Dr Murari Lal, specialises in global and regional climate variability, scenario development, regional environmental change, sectoral vulnerability assessment (water, biodiversity and agriculture), landscape ecology, biophysical remote sensing – GIS applications, ecosystem modeling, regional adaptation & mitigation potential, water resource management; Environment and Carbon Trading Group Halcrow Consulting India Ltd., India
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/people_at_risk/personal_stories/about_cw/cwscientists/
About Prof. Murari Lal
Lead or Co-ordinating Author on several chapters of IPCC Assessment Reports
http://4dweb.proclim.ch/4dcgi/proclim/en/Detail_Person?lalm.newdelhi
About Halcrow Consulting:
“Environment and Carbon Trading Group Halcrow Consulting India Ltd., India”
http://www.halcrow.com/html/documents/pdf/india/halcrow_india_environment_brochure.pdf
Carbon Trading is part of the Environment Division, now that is a surprise.
From the CRU website we see the WWF funds the CRU. I wonder where a charity gets the money to fund climate research?
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/
The WWF funds the CRU
Murari Lal->WWF->CRU
Murari Lal-> Halcrow Consulting->Carbon Trading
How about we skip the middle man:
Carbon Trading-> Halcrow Consulting-> WWF->CRU->IPCC
And simplify.
Carbon Trading->WWF->CRU->IPCC
Carbon Trading->CRU->IPCC
Carbon Trading->IPCC
Carbon Trading->IPCC->Carbon Trading
Really, you just couldn’t make this stuff up.
Delete buttons and shredders will now be in overdrive.
Many reports are not what they seem. On the SPPI site there are quite a number of very similar “State Climate Profiles” here:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/state_climate_profiles.html
They also once had a paper describing how these were produced with the paid help of a consulting group that restricted the input and the resulting documents. Right now I can’t find that paper. However, those of you in the USA may have a “State Climate Profile” you haven’t read, but you should.
A bright light was put on that consulting group and it disbanded, I think. That was reported on WUWT. Can anyone locate any of this.
So where are the missing US news reports on this? Knock Knock
So where are the US news reports on this? Knock Knock
this is amazing…how many more bombshells can we hear like this? i hope this does the IPCC in because it is getting beyond ridiculous at this point.
Dr. Bob…that truly is disgusting. This is looking like the worst sort of good ole boys club imaginable…..this has represented a MASSIVE transfer of wealth to those who are leading this charade. i read somewhere that Al Gore is estimated at about 100 million now whereas 9 years ago upon leaving office his net worth was estimated at around 2 million.
JRR Canada (19:16:56) : Post modern science sure got old fast.
Witty and wise, JRR.
@John Blake
“By AD 2018, Ban Ki-moon’s stupefyingly corrupt and incompetent UN will likely have been disbanded like Woodrow Wilson’s beloved League, not with a bang but a whimper”
Yeah I agree it just hasn’t been the same ever since Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Gali was kicked out. Koffee Enema was really the downfall of the UN despite his apparent (unearned) popularity. They should have locked him up after that disgraceful Oil for Food scandal where he embezzled all those billions while the people of Iraq starved under Saddam.
Dr. Bob (20:40:57) :
It it true.
PS.
Statisticians involved with IPCC Assessments
http://www.stat.washington.edu/peter/ipcc.html
Includes:
Claudia Tebaldi, Rand Corporation
The rest appear to be from from schools and govenment organizations.
ABC Newsradio talked about Christopher Monckton’s Australian visit today. They had a sound bite of him speaking, and did not give time to any Warmists. He stated that “550 million years ago we had CO2 concentrations 10-20 times what they are now, but the Oceans didn’t acidify.”
Lovely! See you Friday night, Chris!
“And came forth the fingers of a man’s hand writing on the wall. And this is the writing that was written. Mene mene tekel upharsin. Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.” From “Belshazzar’s Feast” by William Walton.
“In 2001, the EF of central and eastern Europe (CEE) was 3.8 ha/capita, and of WE 5.1 ha/capita (WWF, 2004)”
A reference from the concluding statements of IPCC report. Is it wrong?
mr artday…that is from the book of Daniel…did WIlliam Walton just paraphrase it? I am not familiar with the extra biblical reference
At last, a paper publisher whose scientific standards I can meet.
Does WWF do novels, too ?
K. Bray in California, High up, USA (19:04:15) :
The main WUWT story on the airplane ad is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/02/earth-awareness-run-amok-wwf-advertising-company-apparently-produced-911-respect-the-planet-video-in-june-2009/
You’ve heard of too big to fail.
This whole IPCC story appears to be too big to report.
It will take out so many officials there’s probably chatter about fear of destabilization.
Quote: Leon Brozyna (19:58:30) :
“So the IPCC is, in reality, a front for the WWF.”
and Greenpeace.
Check out this google search
greenpeace ar4 site:www.ipcc.ch
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=greenpeace+ar4+site%3Awww.ipcc.ch&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=
Results 1 – 10 of about 115 from http://www.ipcc.ch for greenpeace ar4. (0.45 seconds)
The IPCC was long ago corrupted by activists who had first infiltrated many government agencies at all levels.
This has been their MO for many years.
All i have to say is 🙂
Here’s a list of reviewers for WGIII: Mitigation
B. Hare, Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
K. Jardine, Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
K. Mallon, Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
T. Gulowwsen, Greenpeace International (Netherlands)
N Mabey, World Wide Fund for Nature (UK)
F. MacGuire, Friends of the Earth (UK)
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/453.htm
still searching…
Goldman Sachs has big tie-ins to WWF and stands to make billions if carbon exchanges flourish. A couple of WWF board members from GS:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/board/index.html#linden (Lawrence H. Linden is the Founder and Trustee of the Linden Trust for Conservation, which uses state-of-the art financial advice and monetary support to build environmental markets and to structure and execute deals in conservation finance)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/board/index.html#litterman (Robert Litterman of New York, New York, is Chairman of the Quantitative Investment Strategies group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management – ground zero for any carbon trading program at GS!)
I also find it curious that General Electric (seller of all things green under its big “ecomagination” push and promoter of Obama/AGW/cap-and-trade via NBC/MSNBC) has a board member and a senior executive that serve as directors at WWF:
http://www.ge.com/company/leadership/bios_bod/rochelle_lazarus.html
http://www.ge.com/company/leadership/bios_exec/pamela_daley.html
So IPCC is a front for WWF which in turn might be a front (or at least a tool) of GS and GE which have literally tens of billions in revenue on the line.
Perhaps I’m just being cynical. Maybe the GS and GE executives that represent a big portion of WWF’s board really are just concerned for pandas and don’t even think about how it might personally benefit them, their employers or other companies on whose boards they serve…
As always, follow the money.
The lead author of the Asia section of the report, Prof Murari Lal, said IPCC changed rules for the fourth assessment report to include non-peer-reviewed literature. Is that so?
That’s not true. It wasn’t the first time. It is there in the established procedures of IPCC that we can use non-peer-reviewed literature, what we call grey literature. It is there on our website. Where we use grey literature, we are required to closely check sources and verify the authenticity of our information. That’s where the failure took place. That should never have happened.
http://tinyurl.com/yzopalu
LONDON: The United Nations climate science panel faces a new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny and ignored warnings from scientific advisers. The report’s author later withdrew the claim because the evidence was too weak. The link was central to demands at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit by African nations for compensation of $100 billion from the rich nations blamed for creating the most emissions. The Sunday…
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Natural-disasters-not-linked-to-global-warming/articleshow/5496259.cms