Climate agency going up in flames
Exit of Canada’s expert a sure sign IPCC in trouble
A catastrophic heat wave appears to be closing in on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How hot is it getting in the scientific kitchen where they’ve been cooking the books and spicing up the stew pots? So hot, apparently, that Andrew Weaver, probably Canada’s leading climate scientist, is calling for replacement of IPCC leadership and institutional reform.
If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, it’s a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress.
Mr. Weaver, after all, has been a major IPCC science insider for years. He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports.
For him to say, as he told Canwest News yesterday, that there has been some “dangerous crossing” of the line between climate advocacy and science at the IPCC is stunning in itself.
Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangerous line between hype and science.
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Arctic ice looks to be at 2007 levels
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
I think we should just cut to the chase here and call it Climastrology.
“When the moon is in the 7th house and CRU aligns with NASA GISS . . . ”
Mayb we could make it into a broadway musical.
Atheist Ranter (09:20:04) :
The IPCC needs to be closed down.
Don’t you think it would be better to close down the United Nations, the source of all evil, the progressives’ hiding place?
Sometimes I wonder if Al-Qaida hit the wrong building in NY.
That’s a pretty stunning admission from Dr. Weaver who’s been an insider for so long. He’s frequently quoted up here in the great white north as a climate change expert and Nobel prize winner. I must say however, he frequently crosses the line between activist and scientist.
Still waiting for Hansen and Mann to go away(hopefully prison), but this is still moving in the proper direction. Kinda fun to watch the rats abandon ship!! Let the weasel dances begin!!!
I think this just means means Mr Weaver is the biggest coward amongst the rats, or is it the biggest rat amongst the..
Another error exists in the IPCC’s AR4 Technical Summary, where it claims water vapor is increasing in step with temperatures.
You can read my blog post about their error here:
http://magicjava.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipcc-water-vapor-statements-wrong.html
“he frequently crosses the line between activist and scientist”
To call him a scientist is an insult to honest scientists. Why did he accept Manns hockey stick? Why did he not do a check of it, considering the huge change in the temperature reconstruction from previous IPCC reports?
B.C. seems to have gone to pot imo. D Suzuki has this stellar reputation as a scientist, yet he does not do any work to check Manns hockey stick. Instead, he talks about “jailing” deniers!
Eco nut jobs seem to have a cozy home in B.C. It is truly strange.
Well, when the ship is sinking, what happens?
All the rats start to leave. Weaver is only the first. Soon we will be hearing from many other climate scientists who will all shake their heads in disbelief at how politicized the IPCC has become. They will swear up and down that they had misgivings for a long time, but just couldn’t say anything because… well, you know the IPCC was just so big and daunting, you know?
But really, I’m a good scientist! I am! I was just… a victim of circumstance. Yeah, that’s it! A victim of circumstance.
Can I go home now?
And if Weaver departing isn’t enough, Gore is headed for the pews. He intends to spearhead a drive to infiltrate established religion with his own brand of environmentalism.
The AGW science is settled, alright, it’s settled into its catacombs.
OT again, this indicates the power of the web.
Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret
Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 21, 2009 6:57 AM | permalink
Glyn sez,
The vote on concealing British MPs’ expenses has been cancelled by the government! [This was a proposed law that would have made MPs’ expenses a secret, not available through Freedom of Information requests] Over 7000 people joined a Facebook group, they sent thousands of emails to over 90% of all MPs. Hundreds of thousands of people found out about the story by emails, blogs, by visiting TheyWorkForYou to find something they wanted to know, reading an email alert, or simply discovered what was going on whilst checking their Facebook or Twitter pages. Almost all of this happened, from nowhere, within 48 hours, putting enough pressure on Parliament to force change. mySociety also ask if you want even more transparency in parliament that you join the Free Our Bills campaign.”
Rajendra Pachauri , the Incompetent – Top Editorial at India Report
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/747121/Analysis/29/20/29
I think that, after WUWT published CRU hacked emails and it became the now widely known “Climate Gate”, their bosses, as in a gangster’s movie, considered all them as “burned” useless guys, so now, for sure they won’t receive any “funding” anymore….they should be feeling extremely desperate by now.
No surprising if it happends a kind of “King Tut’s malediction” and some of them start suffering mysterious heart attacks..
Throwing each other under every bus in sight.
As I’ve said before “… the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”
Pearland Aggie (09:36:13) :
It would be interesting to see what the readers here think…
I think you’re trying to hijack the current discussion.
“That Mr. Weaver now thinks it necessary to set himself up as the voice of scientific reason, and as a moderate guardian of appropriate and measured commentary on the state of the world’s climate, is firm evidence that the IPCC is in deep trouble.” – National Post – January 27, 2010
I took a look at some of Dr. Weaver’s research several months ago. I became convinced that he is quite serious about learning to understand the complexities of climate.
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“[…] fossil-fuel industry might be responsible for both Climategate and his office break-in.” – National Post – January 27, 2010
Were I a fossil-fuel exec, I might be inclined to fund ALL sides of the issue, as the whole appearance of an issue seems to have the effect of inflating prices.
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Phil (09:17:06) “The environmentalist spin on this one is going to be something to savour since they’ve been using the “it’s not as bad as it looks…let’s all take a deep breath and ignore it” line for a little too long now.”
Don’t confuse environmentalism with climate alarmism.
EdB (10:04:11) “B.C. seems to have gone to pot […] Eco nut jobs seem to have a cozy home in B.C. It is truly strange.”
It’s Hollywood North. You’re falling for the optics.
Pearland Aggie: I had a look at that web site, but I have not delved into the references therein. However one thing immediately struck me about the “high quality” temperature data plot at the end.
There is a plot of temperature anomaly comparing the high quality data and the previous hit-and-miss data. The two curves are almost indistinguishable for 2004-2008.
Question: how was the BASELINE for the high quality data anomalies arrived at? After all it only started in 2004.
CodeTech (09:24:39) :
(Now they can just say “oh, those CRU/GISS/IPCC people were falsifying data, but we didn’t know before.”)
Since the base data was corrupt before many, if not most, of the scientists even got the data it is highly likely that the majority of scientists could say exactly what you have indicated and be telling the absolute truth.
The error was seeded into the data before they even started their analysis. Of course there are some that knew, but I think that the bulk of the papers done by those outside of the ‘inner circle’ before 2003 are likely to be depressed that their life’s work has been based on lies.
Their work and models would match the historical data from the past and recent past but none of their predictions would ever be realized.
It is really sad how these criminals have affected the lives of so many with their malicious and contemptuous acts of greed.
I don’t know how withdrawn papers are recoded, but is should include a specific cause for the withdrawal and I think even a specific reference to the paper or data or person that was so corrupt as to invalidate the withdrawn paper.
If my work had been destroyed in this way, I would be livid.
I’ve figured out why Hansen’s GISS surface record is diverging from HadCrut3, UAH and RSS. This makes it clear why Hansen mistakenly has 2005 as the hottest year on record. For anyone interested:
http://reallyrealclimate.blogspot.com/2010/01/giss-temperature-record-divergence.html
Wow – look at the hit rate on Google right now!
This is taking off! (and pretty impressive response time too!)
“Results 1 – 50 of about 98,100,000 for climategate. (0.65 seconds)”
We won’t arrive at parity until Gore et al are facing worldwide litigation for their part in this deception. Possibly never.
From the linked story and its accounts of Mr Weaver’s own exploits, this isn’t an honest objective scientist who realises with a start that his colleagues are not all that can be desired, he is one of the leading examples of how a scientist can so depart from the impartial, objective un-emotive scientific reporting that he has lost any respect any decent scientist could possibly have for him. He lacks integrity and has abused the position of respect that a scientist should enjoy.
When politicians cannot rely on scientists to be objective, to be accurate and honest, to be neutral in their language, they cannot make rational policy decisions.
He may be trying to leave the sinking ship but he is eminently recognisable for who and what he is, one of the rats.
Politicians will be lad of his sort as he and ghis ilk will provide the excuse for the politicians acting as they did.
It won’t be greed they’ll admit to but to having been duped because they “trusted the science”.
Scientists like him have no excuse.
He may desert the ship, but he might not make it to shore.
Google hit rate sure is reliable! After 5 minutes, I see this:
Results 1 – 50 of about 11,600,000 for climategate. (0.16 seconds)
Oh well…
From Weaver’s local newspaper, the Victoria Times Colonist.
UVic scientist calls for overhaul of United Nations panel on global warming
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/UVic+scientist+calls+overhaul+United+Nations+panel+global+warming/2489576/story.html