“Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing” – Title of Pachauri’s next novel maybe?
WUWT commenter “Galileonardo” writes:
I found this reference to the New York Times in WGII 14.4.6. Just thought it should be part of the growing record:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-4-6.html
The reference reads (Wilgoren and Roane, 1999) and is the source for the following claim:
Unreliable electric power, as in minority neighbourhoods during the New York heatwave of 1999, can amplify concerns about health and environmental justice.
The AR4 reference page can be found here:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-references.html
It reads:
Wilgoren, J. and K.R. Roane, 1999: Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing. New York Times, A1. July 8, 1999
That article can be found here:
I’m not sure who peer reviewed it.
Leon Brozyna (02:21:10) :
IPCC AR4 is a sluicegate of revelations into backdoor deals
I may be a prole, but every time I sees the letters WWF, I think of the now defunct World Wrestling Federation.
Of course I would be the last to suggest an analogy between the validity of the IPCC process and the outcome of a match between Lou Ferrigno and Hulk Hogan.
Another referencing error in IPCC: Killer Trees!!! Caused by global warming!!!!
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2433&Itemid=76
The July 1999 outage in Manhattan was caused by a decaying infrastructure in NYC, and had nothing whatsoever to do with climate. **Three** separate panels and their reports came to that conclusion, and “climate change” was not even an issue. Apparently the IPCC created that theory completely out of thin air:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/nyregion/26network.html
David C. Flanagan, a spokesman for the Public Service Commission, said it was aware of the need for substantial upgrades in Con Edison’s transmission and distribution equipment. “Obviously the areas with the highest feeder-failure rates are of concern to us,” he said.
The 19-hour power failure in 1999, the last major neighborhood blackout in New York City, also affected an area that was known to have a high number of failures.
Con Ed’s annual reports for the five years before that blackout showed that the feeder cables in Manhattan north of 110th Street — covering Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood — shut down 80 percent more often than the other networks in Manhattan.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DE153FF936A15754C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Another focus of the inquiry will be Con Ed’s maintenance of its distribution equipment, a major theme of three reports prepared after the 1999 blackout.
One report, by a panel of three experts convened by Con Edison, said the utility needed to inspect manholes more frequently, improve how it predicts the effect of heat on power cables, and, when a cable burns out, speed its effort to find and fix the damage. A second report, by Mr. Spitzer’s office, found that many components of Con Edison’s distribution network were vulnerable to heat and that the utility ”did not take adequate steps to identify, repair and replace such components.”
Mr. Miksad said the company had increased inspection and maintenance since then, but he could not say by how much.
A third report, by the state’s Public Service Commission, recommended that Con Edison speed up its replacement of older cables and of the joints that connect old and new cables and that it improve monitoring of feeder cables. Each feeder cable has hundreds of parts, which are gradually replaced as they wear out.
@Zorro “Looking more and more like AR4 is just based on wikipedia!”
But at least Wikipedia has a rigorous (if sloppy and fractious) peer review process 😉
The Seattle Times reference (Welch 2006) is mentioned on 14.4.8, “While the season for transport by barge is likely to be extended, the season for ice roads will likely be compressed”, http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-4-8.html
This just in:
CNN) — Punxsutawney Phil, America’s most famous rodent prognosticator, saw his shadow Tuesday, signaling six more weeks of winter.
OT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8490291.stm
Seems it’s common practice these days to hijack the peer review system.
The IPCC report is looking more like a sophomore’s essay than a scientific study—it seemed to grab any and all references without actually reading the documents to provide an appearance of in-depth research.
Wrong chapter. Try this:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch7s7-references.html
Numerous groundhogs declare the ending of winter. They of course are peer reviewed.
The IPCC seems more like the
National Weather Enquiror.
Environmental justice? Folks, I was part of the California rolling blackouts due to heat, lack of enough juice, and gaming by Enron. . . they rolled thru the middle-class and rich neighborhoods too. . .
How is this a dodgy reference?
Also, why does the original post include the sentence “Who peer reviewed it?” when we know not every reference in the IPCC report needed to be peer-reviewed?
“Social justice” — now there’s a scientific term.
Oops! Should have said “Environmental Justice”, not “Social Justice.”
Same thing, really.
Government/governments set up Charity/Quango’s, to report results government/governments want to hear.
This applies to the road safety partnerships I have to deal with.
Accident data at speed camera sites are used to justify more speed cameras.
A balloon on a stick would produce the same results as a speed camera (regression to the mean) and would cost less.
A balloon on a stick does not generate revenue though.Either for the government or the quangos they employ out of public funds.
Thus the circle is complete.
Ian (02:14:19) :
After Climategate, Pachaurigate, Amazongate, we must surely be approaching Watergate.
Re a “Watergate”: I believe that would refer to the non-sinking islands, or perhaps to the “Unsinkable” R. Pachuri.
Andy Scrase (00:46:43) :
…Global warming or marxism? Your choice…
No choice required. AGW fits the neo-Marxist agenda:
http://buythetruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/climate-change-and-the-death-of-science/
Garry (05:14:16) :
“The July 1999 outage in Manhattan was caused by a decaying infrastructure in NYC, and had nothing whatsoever to do with climate. **Three** separate panels and their reports came to that conclusion, and “climate change” was not even an issue. Apparently the IPCC created that theory completely out of thin air:”
The IPCC report says nothing about the blackout in the NY Times article being caused by climate change.
Quote:
Unreliable electric power, as in minority neighbourhoods during the New York heatwave of 1999, can amplify concerns about health and environmental justice.
You mean the kind of unreliable electric power supplied by wind turbines !!
Yup, let’s have lots more “Cold Showers and Rotting Food”. Let’s go Green – and cold and smelly.
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Sorry for the OT, but this environmentalist video almost knocked me down from my chair:
:)))
Anthony, Comments on this work?
bradley13 (03:54:57) :
Not sure how best to submit this to WUWT. Here is a from-scratch analysis of the NOAA temperature data, in an attempt to see what trend really exists. Seems to be nicely done, and full source-code is available (in a rather unusual language)
Anthony,
The link did not copy and Paste here is the link
http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2010/01/global-warming/
John
‘ “Social justice” — now there’s a scientific term.’
More like a redundant term. Justice is surely per se ‘social’, that is, it is concerned with the right ordering of relationships in a society. The two classical loci of an appeal to the virtue of justice are the legislative chamber and the courtroom. The ‘jus cuique’, roughly ‘to each his own’ is the beginning of any ‘theory’ of justice, pace the late John Rawls.
“one law for the lamb and the lion is tyrrany,” as William Blake observed.
>>>On Biased BBC blog there is a must read,it appears that
>>>the BBC pension fund administrators have tipped the BBC
>>>into global warming
>> http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/02/fingers-in-pies.html
Well let’s hope the BBC pension fund invests heavily in wind power – and loses its collective shirt when the grid disconnects this hugely unstable power-supply system.
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