“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.
I’ve run out of popcorn.
OT I suppose – a very silly satirical take on catastrophism, IPCC and climategate from a British blog. It was a nice light laugh after the day’s serious stuff on the topic. Quite plausible really, should be a doddle to model:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/trees-will-not-become-unstoppable-killing-machines%2c-admit-climate-scientists-201002022433/
Please note the title of the book advertised on the upper right banner. Very British.
(!Ribald humour and ripe language for anyone of a squeamish disposition!)
The greatest concern regarding “unreliable power” would be ….. wind power.
Interesting take on things in the New Scientist editorial.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527452.600-let-the-sunlight-in-on-climate-change.html
“However, the IPCC’s heroic days are probably over. The case for anthropogenic climate change has been established; the Nobel prize is won. So it is time for a rethink of where the IPCC is going, and what its future role should be. ”
Over to you folks…
The UEA fights back agains the Grauniad article which slated the lack of action regarding the UHI effects in China’s temperature figures:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/guardianstatement
Richard Black rips the UEA ‘attack’ of the Grauniad article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2010/02/much_has_been_written.html
I thought this was a spoof, please tell me it is a spoof:
The Social Simulation of the Public Perception
of Weather Events and their Effect upon
the Development of Belief in
Anthropogenic Climate Change
http://www.tyndall.uea.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wp58.pdf
@Andy Scrase
This Tyndall paper cannot be real, can it? Can it? And yet it’s on their site and 41 pages of sociological mind manipulation theory is hardly a one-liner gag. If it’s real, it’s straight out of an Orwellian nightmare and speaks volumes about the intentions of AGW proponents, as much as the CRU documents do. I remain sceptical on this file but … but ….
“Proposition 4. As positive temperatures accumulate, the general tendency towards
warming lessens the tendency for further warmer temperatures to have an impact on
belief in the occurrence of change. The perception of change is replaced by a perception of normality.”
“Figure 10. The Impact of Recurring Seasonal Deviations and Positive Temperature
Accumulation on the Media”
“Figure 11. The Relationship Between Spring Positive Temperature Frequency Media
Effect and Individual Belief Update.”
@RichieP
Well, I suppose if they can download a few emails, then uploading a hoax pdf shouldn’t be too much of a problem
We could always email the authors and ask them for verification.
Nah, this Tyndall paper has to be a trap set for credulous deniers to descend into conspiracy theory …
“Obviously influenced by the substantive issue, we have labelled the scale we use as belief temperature. We assume that events (direct and indirect encounters) provide the impetus for belief change. One should keep in mind, that although we are dealing with a public construction of reality, the reality per se has not yet manifest. The public are assessing clues to confirm the conclusions of science. In effect, it is the social construction of quasi-reality.”
@Andy Scrase
My previous posted before I saw your reply. Well, I shall (try to) read it fully despite the strangulated and execrable style. How did you find it?
@ur momisugly Andy Scrase
Holy cr#p! That looks legit and could be the Orwellian ‘how-to’ manual these guys have been following! Did you see at the end where they list their partners?
”
The Tyndall Centre is a partnership of the following institutions:
University of East Anglia
UMIST
Southampton Oceanography Centre
University of Southampton
University of Cambridge
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research (University of Sussex)
Institute for Transport Studies (University of Leeds)
Complex Systems Management Centre (Cranfield University)
Energy Research Unit (CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
The Centre is core funded by the following organisations:
Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
UK Government Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
”
http://www.tyndall.uea.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wp58.pdf
Anthony/Evan – this deserves an article or more! Wow.. just wow!
I’ve taken a copy for preservation.
Anthony – *if * it can be shown that this is a legitimate item from this outfit, it is, as Sydney S says, strong stuff (at least on first skimming). My immediate reaction is to wonder how this fits into warmist press release policy/announcements – though timing and managing your scare stories to coincide with suitable weather/climate events is hardly an eureka idea and isn’t too different from advertising practices.
@Sydney Skeptic
If it is a hoax, then it is very well done, and it made it onto the Tyndall web site.
I can’t find any links leading to this paper, which makes we think it is a hoax.
Either way, it is still a story, IMHO
I don’t see anything unusual about that article. It looks like most other material that I have seen from Social “Science” departments. Check out a few “top” papers at http://tinyurl.com/yfqnemc I especially marveled at the top paper in the humanities section that explores the legal implications of the word f**k.
The unique part of the article in question is its play on climate change as a way to get published. Or funded. It’s a sign that way too much money is available for anything mentioning climate.
Clive (08:57:17) :
Several Punxsutawney comments. Funny stuff. I found this reference in AR4. ☺
Phil, Punxsutawney, 2009. The decadal variability of winter duration in the Northern Hemisphere: Cause for concern. J. Rodent Sci.. 60, 131 – 148.
ROFLMAO
@RichieP et al
Oops, spoke too soon.
It’s linked to from Scientific Commons
http://en.scientificcommons.org/11532103
@DCC
I don’t see anything unusual about that article. It looks like most other material that I have seen from Social “Science” departments
….The penny drops with me, finally
Climate Science = Social Science
+
Social Science Science (Popper)
=> Climate Science Science
QED
I meant..(Damned html tag stripping)
@DCC
I don’t see anything unusual about that article. It looks like most other material that I have seen from Social “Science” departments
….The penny drops with me, finally
Climate Science = Social Science
+
Social Science != Science (Popper)
implies .. Climate Science != Science
QED
@Andy Scrase
Well, I think that set of logical steps probably demonstrates that the science is settled.
Just had one of the head honchos of the IPCC on Newsnight, BBC2 tonight (2 2 10), stating it’s OK to use newspaper articles and Government reports if peer-review doesn’t exist. What next for tomorrow? Comic books?
It might be worth dragging up every instance of the IPCC heads and global warmists citing the impeachable peer-review credentials of the IPCC reports. They’re contradicting today what they asserted as fact yesterday.
It’s crumbling
@ur momisugly Andy Scrase
If it’s a hoax, then it’s a very well written and comprehensive hoax.
It’d be nice to check out the existence of that doc on archive.org or Google Cache.. or search for the ‘wp58.pdf’ to see if it exists elsewhere.
Yup. Google ‘wp58.pdf climate’ – there are a few links to that doc!
http://coloradoright.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/green-communism/
http://www.dougwils.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5130:Belay-My-Last&catid=105:global-swarming
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/18/flashbacksnow-in-buenos-aires-first-time-in-89-years/
Pachauri of ‘Policy Neutral’ IPCC Calls for ‘Grassroots Action’ in Response to Setbacks http://bit.ly/dDxZao
Curt (11:02:54) :
What civil unrest is there in that article? People bitching about loss of power?
Oops — sorry. I assumed that something similar to the earlier blackouts had happened.
Anyway, citing the NYT article was still OK, because all it was documenting was the bad social results from an intermittent-because-heat-stressed electrical supply. The IPCC wasn’t relying on it for its science.