Galloping Camel writes: 
The IPCC issued its fourth assessment report (AR4) in 2007, updated for the Copenhagen conference in 2009. This report raised a fire storm of criticism which elicited only a feeble response. As a result the IPCC’s credibility has been seriously damaged. Will the new “AR5” report correct the faults of its predecessors?
On December 12, 2011 documents purporting to be the “Zero Order Draft” of the WG1 (Working Group 1) committee was published on the Internet. Less than 48 hours later the site went dead. Fortunately, most of the files were recoverable.
If you have any of the missing files, please send a copy to info@gallopingcamel.info
Organizations that receive government funding for climate research are surprisingly reluctant to have any public scrutiny or input. For example, the University of Virginia, Penn State and the University of East Anglia are using the courts to block disclosure of information relating to work paid for by taxpayers. These organizations and many like them scorn sunshine laws, Freedom of Information Acts (FoIA) as well as the concept of accountability. This strategy is working for the most part, backed up as it is by a string of disgraceful “Investigations”.
The higher one goes in the government food chain the less interest in accountability. IPCC stands for “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”, which in the opinion of some makes it accountable solely to itself. How anyone can justify resisting disclosure of information paid for by taxpayers is a mystery, yet the recent “Climategate 2” disclosures and related leaks have been strongly resented in some quarters as evidenced by attempts to “Unring the Bell”.
The heavy handed actions taken against “Tallbloke” and others may be attempts to intimidate people who want to lift the curtain that hides the Wizards of Climate Science from Dorothy and Toto.
See them at: http://www.gallopingcamel.info/IPCC.htm
h/t to Jeff Id
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IPCC’S highly skilled, highly paid Photographers with special trainings have already presented TEDx vedios. But the facts are there are no SUN SHINES TO melt the ICESHELVES. ICESHELVES ARE DEICING FROM BOTTOM BY CONC: DEICERS. Capture it & build more ice mases near Poles to bring down the temperatures. Welcome to visit AIR CONDITIONING OF MOTHER EARTH & comment
Are you kidding? Not even Fox News will stick their necks out on this issue. Not with the prospect of “2000 of the worlds leading scientists” chopping them off at the knees (in a very public way) for being complete idiots. Like it or not, the extreme vitriol boils down to the perception that the denialists represent an ignorant population of religious fundamentalist that can’t possibly understand the science. However untrue this is it results in an extreme arrogance associated with most exchanges with individuals that align themselves with the warmists. Something like ” how dare an ignorant idiot challenge my position”. I think it’s going to be a very long time before the MSM will take on this issue in any ballanced way.
“The icy parts of the planet — known collectively as the cryosphere — affect, and are affected by, local 20 changes in temperature. The mass of water stored in mountain glaciers globally has fallen year on year for 21 the past 20 years. The lost mass contributes to the observed rise in sea-level. Snow cover is sensitive to 22 changes in temperature particularly during the spring when the snow starts to melt. Spring snow cover has 23 fallen across the Northern Hemisphere since the 1950s. The Arctic has warmed at twice the rate of the rest of 24 the world. Surface observations in this region are sparse, but losses in sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean measured 25 by satellites — particularly at the time of the summer minimum in extent — and reductions in the area of 26 frozen land are consistent with the observed increase in temperature. In the Southern Ocean that surrounds 27 Antarctica, temperatures have not increased significantly. This is consistent with the slight increase in sea-ice 28 extent seen in the Southern Hemisphere.”
One more time with feeling!
How many contested statements does this excerpt from Chapter 2 contain?
“mass of water stored in mountain glaciers globally has fallen year on year for 21 the past 20 years” shows that it is worse than we thought – much worse.
But the rest of the paragraph is full of now discredited received wisdom.
Many of us were aware of this. So is this post begging for people to supply the downloads? Or is it for info?
Jason,
Some of the documents are still missing so I am asking for them to be sent to info@gallopingcamel.info. That’s how I got most of the files currently on my server.
The next task is to review the files in detail and that is far too large a task for one camel. That is why I am appealing for volunteers. Donna Laframboise has already shown the way:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/my-book/
They’re really hot to find who put the files online aren’t they ?
It takes a stunning effort of will to completely miss the content of the damning letters, but they do it.
Whoever did it should get a whistleblower prize.