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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_Jim (18:42:11) :
When I see “WWF”, so help me, I still think “World Wrestling Federation”
the IPCC report is just as real as World Wrestling Federation.
“The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”
Hey WWF, make another “Save The Planet” video showing 200,000 beheadings.
That makes just as much sense as your NYC/airplane production.
[snip]
Ahh, what I wouldn’t give for a rematch between Ed “PeerReview!” Begley Jr. and Stuart Varney. It would truly be comedy gold, to see Eddie continue to defend all the research cited from the IPCC that now being found to NOT have been peer reviewed.
For those who never saw the idiot’s rant on Fox, here’s a short clip of it:
Daniel H (20:19:30) :
“The 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”.
That’s obviously who also dominates the IPCC, ClimateProgress and RC.
“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.”
The shocking fanatasism and hypocrisy is only surpassed by their complete lack of integrity justified by their perceived greater cause.
“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.”
Well, that’s a bit of a mistake. When did the IPCC say that only peer-reviewed papers were allowed?
If they put all drafts of AR4 in the public domain for non-peer review (which it does) and people such as Christopher Monckton get to pore through it, a non-peer who reviewed AR4 before final publication, then they also “hid” nothing.
It’s all there in Annex2 of the IPCC rules under ‘Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work’.
TonyB (02:37:12) :
Gregg E replied to my original comment
“…invariably honourable and constructive.”
The context of my comment was that the original purpose of the campaignig organisation-such as WWF- was on the whole, good. It is what has subsequently happened-particularly with the big powerful ones- that is the cause for concern.
Donate to organizations that give a respectable percentage of funds to improve habitat. Ducks unlimited, National Wild Turkey Federation, for example. The WWF doesn’t care about habitat, only politics and money to fund their bureacracy.
All this needs to be thoroughly vetted by Ed Begley whereupon we will learn The Peer Reviewed Truth From the Green Cottage.
“WWF it would seem would also be more accurately described as World Wide Fibbers.”
Might be I would be more plain and simple:
World Wide Fraud
Shame on us for not catching this quicker.
Right, Tarby: So now it’s the rest of the World which is responsible for the complete failure of the ipcc’s “Climate Science”?
Anyone else picturing Pachauri doing karaoke to Dire Straits “Money For Nothing”?
RE: J.Peden (08:32:33) :
“Right, Tarby: So now it’s the rest of the World which is responsible for the complete failure of the ipcc’s “Climate Science”?”
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The article here makes a claim that is wrong concerning what’s allowed in the IPCC reports. The up-to-date observations also match the IPCC projections on CO2 emissions, sea level rise and Arctic sea ice extent. Get over it.
Highlighting a handful of non peer reviewed articles amongst thousands of peer reviewed papers and claiming they debunk the science is stretching the imagination.
Alan F (09:06:11) :
Anyone else picturing Pachauri doing karaoke to Dire Straits “Money For Nothing”?
“And the Warming Models for free”?
Yes, IPCC 2007 TAR is plenty of errors… most of them UNDER-estimating Climate Change impacts. Examples:
Arctic sea ice: WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR 2040… REALIZED IN … 2007!
Sea level rise: WORST CASE SCENARIO: 50-60 cm for 2100. Now likely SLR will be between 1 and 2 meters!
Ice caps: Antartica was predicted to gain ice. Now it is losing mass at an ACCELERATING rate!
And finally back to INDIA: the monsoon is decaying (see the papers of V. Ramanathan). In 2009 Droughts and floods damaged the country agriculture in at the point of treatening FAMINE, that will be mitigated importing rice and other cereals(usually India exports them). This plus extreme social injustice and extreme poverty, have put the country at the doors of CIVIL WAR.
It is interesting to note, here in Ontario, that Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Principle Secretary, Mr. Gerald Butts, left his position in the Premier’s office to become head of WWF Canada. A busy man, Mr. Butts is taking part in the Canadian International Council and Global Positioning Project for Canada, where he will be helping to formulate ideas in time for the 2010 G8 Summit in Huntsville. He is also part of the Sustainability Project for the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. Among other things, he is also a board member of Canada 2020, which describes itself as a “progressive centre”. It is instructive to look at the other attendees of some of the conferences which he attends.
commonsense (09:44:19) :
Yes, IPCC 2007 TAR is plenty of errors… most of them UNDER-estimating Climate Change impacts.
The TAR was published in 2001. That’s my answer to the rest of your bs, because it’s the closest you got to any relevant truth, your screen name included.
Choo-Choo’s nemesis: “voodoo science” has stuck on Choo-Choo.
“*He [Pachauri] lives like a monk in India”.
>>> “*“I know him quite well and he is certainly not suspicious and earning a lot of money and spending it on his own welfare. He lives like a monk in India and all the money he is receiving he is giving to his institution.”
EU Referendum: Monk Pachauri:
“Dr Rajendra Pachauri, … But he certainly enjoys a lavish personal lifestyle, with his Delhi home in the Golf Links area, the most expensive stretch of residential real estate in India,”
eureferendum.blogspot.com/
Choo-Choo is gonzo.
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“*UN’s rogue glacier claim ‘was just one page in report’, says IPCC deputy
Calls for the resignation of the embattled head of the UN climate change body were dismissed by its vice-chairman today as the organisation sought to repair its damaged credibility.
The discredited claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 because of global warming was just “one page in a 938-page report”, said Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Mr van Ypersele praised the IPCC chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, for devoting his life to his work on climate change, rejecting accusations that the misleading data had been used to claim grants for Dr Pachauri’s research institute.
He did, however, criticise Dr Pachauri for last year accusing the Indian Government of peddling “voodoo science” when it questioned the IPCC’s claims about Himalayan glaciers.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7001693.ece
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi
Just to be sure everyone knows… an arm of Rockefeller also funds WWF and Greenpeace–hmmm, yeah, the oil magnates really love their oil-not. They love profit and control.
The UN is despicable and should be removed from all walks of life. Sure, the little people in the UN that are trying to make a difference are just manipulated by the masters. They provide untruths and half-facts in order to get people on board, while the real agenda of control remains unseen.
Just like the UN ‘educating’ third world countries… it may sound nice, but you have to look at what they call ‘education’–anything but.
The entire UN needs to always be questioned; never taken as a source of reliable info, just an opinion based on an organization promoted by billionaires for the sake of controlling whatever they wish to control.
The UN is a FRAUD. Investigate any/all agencies and you’ll find the same profiteering/manipulating bastards… I guarantee you that.
Well hats off to the Beeb for this interview with Greenpeace.
http://www.businessinsider.com/greenpeaces-director-is-busted-for-lying-about-the-effects-of-global-warming-2009-8
“The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.” Worship it. Trust Al Gore for it. Believe lies for it. Redistribute income for it. Give up all the conveniences of modern life for it.*
*Even though none of those things make any difference to it. Tsunamis are cause by earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic forces in the earth’s crust. Tectonics are caused by nuclear reactions at the earth’s core. There is nothing that recycling or SUVs or carbon offsets can do to change it.
commonsense (09:44:19) says:
I can’t tell if you are engaging in parody or have been visiting Mrs Palmer too much.
Tarby (09:26:28) says:
Tarby and commonsense:
Tarby and commonsense, the point is:
1] Whatever “process” the ipcc is using, in practice it works solely toward the opposite of producing real Science.
2] Your transparent tactical goal of trying to divert everyone into engaging in a circular, interminable debate over each and every microgram of the massive load the ipcc’s Climate Scientists and “process” have dumped upon the World will only succeed in finding people either afflicted with [snip] myopia, or under the delusion that they are Great Sophists, at best. But it will change nothing concerning the nature of the ipcc’s terminal “product”. And,
3] For your own wellbeing, whether you believe or ‘believe in’ your statements and tactics or not, stop doing what you are doing here immediately! Diverting and dissembling becomes habit forming, from which you won’t ever be able to approach the truth. And as a personal economic plan, what you are doing is not “sustainable”.
In addition, you are not “helping the World” either, you are doing the opposite.
H.L. Mencken translated: “Scratch a saver of the World, find a Controllist.”
What is a damnd shame and has set back the good work of true conservationists – is the revelation that WWF, Greenpeace etc. become marxist/alienated tools.
Money given in earnest by well-meaning people redirected to fund misanthropic endeavors is light years from wildlife protection. A fantastic failure at all levels of government, academia, philanthropy, science. More accurately a failure of virtual education.
All the more reason to reject virtualized worlds – programmers incapable of neutrality or balance. A tragedy for the goals of enlightened learning – and for idealism. The net result will be massive apathy, cynicism, isolation. Apocalypse of the mind. Utter waste.