Yesterday I did something that I never expected to get any results on. My lucky number 1029 paid off.
I’ve been appointed as an expert reviewer for the IPCC AR5. I’ve viewed the invitation letter and it’s the real deal.
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—–Original Message—–
From: wg1-it@ipcc.unibe.ch
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:57 AM
To: awatts@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Cc: wg1-it@ipcc.unibe.ch
Subject: Invitation to Provide an Expert Review of the First Order Draft WGI contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
Dear Anthony Watts,
The IPCC Working Group I (WGI) Co-Chairs are pleased to announce the
Expert Review of the First Order Draft (FOD) of the WGI contribution
to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical
Science Basis (AR5) and invite you to serve as an Expert Reviewer. An
invitation letter is available from
https://fod.ipcc.unibe.ch/fod/PDFs/WGIAR5_ExpertReview_InvitationLetter.pdf
and may be accessed using your individual username and password:
User name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This username and password pair is personalized for you and may not
be shared. Your username and password will be required to access the
WGI AR5 FOD Chapters and to submit a review. The drafts, review form,
and additional supporting material are available from the WGI AR5 FOD
Expert Review website:
https://fod.ipcc.unibe.ch/fod/
Expert Reviewers are kindly reminded that all materials provided from
this website are available for the sole purpose of the Expert Review
and may not be cited, quoted, or distributed.
The WGI AR5 Expert Review of the FOD will run from 16 December 2011
to 10 February 2012. All comments must be submitted through the above
website by the close of the Expert Review on 10 February 2012.
Thank you in advance for providing a review of the WGI AR5 FOD.
Best regards,
IPCC WGI TSU
on behalf of the WGI Co-Chairs
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Working Group I Technical Support Unit – IT wg1-it@ipcc.unibe.ch
University of Bern ph: +41 31 631 56 18
Zaehringerstrasse 25 fx: +41 31 631 56 15
3012 Bern, Switzerland www.ipcc.unibe.ch
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Anyone else get accepted?
Congratulations Mr Watts. How do you run a business, run a massive blog, look after your family and then sign up for something more to do in the long winter evenings? Make sure you don’t overdo things, please.
Congratulations. A good choice.
Congrats Anthony, but be prepared for a background check from Donna!
It strikes me that the high priests will have scored a major coup if they succeed in gagging Anthony Watts during their next “Climate Bible” – writing convocation. This notwithstanding the many other excellent guest writers at WUWT.
Ever since the UEA had its good name compromised by the “team”, any attempt to improve its reputation is fraught with difficulty. Thus I look askance at this BBC report about University of East Anglia scientists researching storms. “Hello”, thinks I, wat be goin’ orn ‘ere?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16213548
‘Ow to tark Norfolk.
Congratulations Anthony – I will pass this great news along to the steering committee.
Congratulations, you have been co-opted. This is privileged information, and MUST NOT be made public under penalty (oops…never mind). Give my regards to the Mad Hatter and Alice (because you are Now Entering Wonderland–Population 97%).
Congratulations and I wish you the best of luck. My guess is that by the time AR5 gets though its process we will be long enough into a hiatus of warming (and quite likely cooling if there is anything to an 800 year cycle) for it to be statistically “significant”.
You are going to have a LOT of papers to read in order to keep up with the literature.
Sorry to be off topic – read this from American Thinker please.
Tallbloke, McIntyre, and Jeff Id at Airvent all received the following from the U.S. DOJ:
U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
1301 New York Avenue, NW, 6th floor
Washington, DC 20005
PHONE: 202-353-2854
FAX: 202-514-6113
December 9, 2011
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Automattic Inc.
60 29th Street #343
San Francisco, CA 94110
Attn: law-enforcement@wordpress.com
Re: Request for Preservation of Records
Dear Automattic Inc.:
Pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 2703(f), this letter is a formal request for the preservation of all stored communications, records, and other evidence in your possession
regarding the following domain name(s) pending further legal process: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com, http://noconsensus.wordpress.com, and http://climateaudit.org (“the Accounts”) from 00:01 GMT Monday 21 November 2011 to 23:59 GMT Wednesday 23 November 2011.
I request that you not disclose the existence of this request to the subscriber or any other person, other than as necessary to comply with this request. If compliance with this request might result in a permanent or temporary termination of service to the Accounts, or otherwise alert any user of the Accounts as to your actions to preserve the information described below, please contact me as soon as possible and before taking action. End of request.
Ron De Haan notes at Sullivan’s Travelers:
That the crackdown has been directed at exactly these three Skeptic Climate Blogs is no coincidence.
The Air Vent received the first batch of ClimateGate e-mails shortly before the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Meeting and together with Tallbloke’s Talkshop they received the second release shortly before the Durban Climate Meeting.
Steve McIntyre from Climate Audit has been responsible for debunking the infamous hockey stick graph from Michael Mann and caused the UN IPCC lot’s of headaches with his sharp analysis.
I wondered why the ClimateGate II e-mails are so much different from the ClimateGate I e-mails that they have triggered this crackdown and the answer is evident when we take a closer look at an e-mail with the number 5310 I found as a posting at Musings from the Chiefio. The ClimateGate I e-mails were limited to communication between scientists.
This time the e-mails contain the names of political leaders, government departments, institutions and… a potentially explosive content.
A Freedom of Information request produced some interesting results. to see a message thread involving government people and people from the University of East Anglia strategizing on how best to present things to the public, go here.
The thread shows that the British government was colluding with scientists . Be sure to note the e-mail addresses.
So, now the long knives are coming out. The leftists, the ruling class, the environmentalists pinned all of their hopes on Global Warming, and these leaked e-mails are finishing it. We are now seeing acts of desperation.
Keep an eye on this, folks; this situation could explode!
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/british_police_raid_climategate_bloggers_home.html#ixzz1gic4lR5l
ClimateForAll says:
December 16, 2011 at 8:13 am
If and when the time comes, the IPCC can promote that 1000′s of skeptic reviewers endorsed global warming.
Exactly. Moreover, they’ll then imply that “Global Warming” means “Anthropogenic Global Warming by CO2 emissions” and we must act now to reduce CO2 emissions.
But you weren’t a Greenpeace/WWF ‘report’ author or a political shill, so just what do you bring to the table?
Honesty? Integrity? Rigour? – Phew – they’ll be gunning for you, don’t take anything at face value and don’t put your name to anything IPCC – this is not what it says on the label.
They will set you up, no ifs or buts – the BEST palaver is a reminder of how these tw@ts work and how they think.
Congrats sir …
I don’t think it even matters if they ignore your input … you will get raw data to work with and make recommendations and the day the IPCC lifts the embargo you can publish everything, the data, the formulas and your recommendations …
should be a good very public test of their objectivity …
The IPCC was created to further a political agenda, by giving credibility to the speculation that by burning fossil fuels, western civilization was causing the Earth to heat up catastrophically. In other words, its purpose is to validate a foregone conclusion, not to report objectively on independent research.
I don’t see how any reputable scientist can participate in such an enterprise, which is contrary to the goals and method of science.
/Mr Lynn
Despite all the reservations expressed, this is a remarkable development. I don’t see huge shifting of sentiment to come out of this but it marks at least a small turning point (can’t shake the paranoia completely) that they would go for what was hitherto unthinkable – bring their most constant (and honest-thinking, gentlemanly) critic into the mix. I say turning point for several reasons but the most happy one is that the failures of the many predictions of CAGW and the embarassing revelations on shoddy science and evil behavior of the “consensus” can no longer be completely ignored. You have worked so hard and paid heavily in cash and time- family time, neglect of business and livelihood. You have done this in the face of personal attacks, misrepresentation, even threats and other mean-spirited acts by so-called educated and civilized persons and you have endured this all with dignity, and fairness to opponents points of view. You have also done what you can for the environment – home lighting, electric car, other energy-saving changes… This pretty well is the best definition of a classy person. I hope that this is a first sign that you may one day be properly rewarded for the immeasurable good you have done for every person on this planet – I have been enriched and improved and so has everyone else.
Anthony, good luck, watch your back! I endorse all the comments in that regard here, your friends are right behind you & are going to be supportive all the way. This could be the usual group hug approahc everyone must be included, like the school nativity play in Love Actually, daughter tels Emma Thompson she is going to the be the third octopus in the manger!!!!!!!!!
Having been reading this site for several years now I think it is wholly uncecessary for MangoChutney to advise you to be “honest with them” nor to be “true to yourself”! I think I speak for everyone who reads & posts here, we know that already, it is taken as read from the off!
Burch says:
December 16, 2011 at 7:02 am
What’s that old saw? Something, something, keep your enemies closer…
Congrats!
Godfather Part 2, Michael Corleone speaking of what his father, Don Corleone taught him, “keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer!” It is often referred to in political circles & bureaucratic circles too. I remember working for a gov’ment organisation in the architectural/engineering department. An architectural student wanted to do her year out/work experience with us. The boss said much the same thing, he didn’t want her to find too many things out about how the system worked, so he arranged for her to work on “given” projects” with limited access & responsibility! Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
HAGWE everybody 🙂
Come to the Dark Side, Luke Anthony.
That post went well. Note to self – use <strike> instead of <s>.
The next thing that happens is that you get an email disinviting you. It will be landing in your email box any day now….,
There are usually 3 reviewers, even if you object you will be outvoted 2:1, article will be published as peer reviewed, you will declare that you are outraged and resign!
I wish you luck.
I’ve very impressed and even slightly hopeful. To top it off, I just noticed that you are mentioned in a front page article on FoxNews too!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/16/complicit-in-climategate-doe-under-fire/
Congrats Anthony, I know you will do the world proud in your reviews.
Just a reminder, when they pass the drink your way make sure it is not Kool-aid!
Yes. I have heard they are preparing a special area for skeptics, around the back, next to the big
garbage binum “filing cabinet”. Ignore the wino and the bag lady, they are just the staff hired to perform the collating duties of your vital data. But don’t fret, your name will appear prominently on the report. GK@John Marshall December 16, 2011 at 6:54 am:
Actually, the phrase “Give ’em hell,” is associate with General Douglas McArthur’s last boss, President Harry S Truman, not with the guy who killed a few people at the behest of President Herbert Hoover while ousting the Bonus Army from the Washington Mall.
BTW, Anthony, it isn’t too transparent an effort at co-opting a muckraker of the first order…LOL
What are the odds that review comment you make will get into the final draft? Is anyone taking odds?
Timor danaos et dona ferentes