Pielke Jr. demolishes IPCC Lead Author Senate EPW testimony

Rud Istvan says:
August 1, 2012 at 3:30 pm
“Now Fields asserted everything, without a shred of proof. You all are asserting nothing, also without giving a shred do proof.”
Go to Pielke Jr’s website. There he spells out Fields’ lies or prevarications in excruciating detail.

Mc at CA has expanded Pielke’s treatment by comparing the IPCC zero and first order drafts to show how evidence (i.e. cited publications) has been expunged to hide 1000 year drought patterns. He opines that the first draft was better.

dp says:
August 1, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Whenever I read Joshua I feel the life draining from me. The guy is just numbing, predictable, and dull as a re-run.
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Yes, does “Joshua” get paid for such trolling?? It is unbearably tedious to read him and I do it as little as possible. One could lose brain cells trying to read trolls like Joshua….
btw, Pielke Jr. has certainly stirred up the hornets’ nest….. the CAGW propagandists can’t bear to have one of their IPCC “lead authors” shown up for the scheming tool that he is….

Entropic Man provides a pointer to the abstract of a paper behind a paywall. If there was a proof that carbon dioxide led to the heating of the atmosphere, it escaped the authors.
Between about 55.5 and 52 million years ago, Earth experienced a series of sudden and extreme global warming events (hyperthermals) superimposed on a long-term warming trend1. The first and largest of these events, the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), is characterized by a massive input of carbon, ocean acidification2 and an increase in global temperature of about 5 °C within a few thousand years3. Although various explanations for the PETM have been proposed4, 5, 6, a satisfactory model that accounts for the source, magnitude and timing of carbon release at the PETM and successive hyperthermals remains elusive

Its worth having a look at the comments under Pielke Jnr’s post – several of the usual team cheerleaders (Dana1981, Joshua) can see nothing at all wrong with Field’s testimony. The tenacity with which they deny the blatant, brute fact that Field was LYING is typical, but instructive.
These people appear to have no moral compass at all when it comes to promoting their ideology.

My genuine concern, is that this kind of misrepresentation indicates that the scientist has been ‘turned’ and ordinary folk are blind to it. There are many scientists who genuinely believe a ‘pet’ theory is valid until shown otherwise – but, as a rule, not many will deliberately misrepresent information just to support/promote that theory. The morally sound scientists prefer to work it through until the proof is (or isn’t) there. Of course, climate science is different! and such things are common place, which is exactly why we are in the mess we are in.
Personally, I seriously hope those that take this poor attitude (and the AGW money!) end up suffering grossly from their misdeeds. (put another way, in a few years time, we should send them out to face the wretched millions affected by their bad science! Mind you – on the other hand, as per Monty Python, perhaps ”stoning is too good for them”!)

I am referring to testimony given today by Christopher Field, a professor at Stanford, to the US Senate.

Oh come on………….be fair to the guy.

Four big international companies, including the oil giant Exxon Mobil, said yesterday that they would give Stanford University $225 million over 10 years for research on ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming.
Exxon Mobil, whose pledge of $100 million makes it the biggest of the four contributors,….http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/us/exxon-led-group-is-giving-a-climate-grant-to-stanford.html

Other references:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/safety_climate_gcep-research.aspx
http://www.api.org/environment-health-and-safety/environmental-performance/public-private-partnerships/environmental-partnerships/air-quality/climate-research-with-stanford-university.aspx

Tom Jones says:
August 1, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Entropic Man provides a pointer to the abstract of a paper behind a paywall. If there was a proof that carbon dioxide led to the heating of the atmosphere, it escaped the authors.
Between about 55.5 and 52 million years ago, Earth experienced a series of sudden and extreme global warming events (hyperthermals) superimposed on a long-term warming trend1. The first and largest of these events, the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), is characterized by a massive input of carbon, ocean acidification2 and an increase in global temperature of about 5 °C within a few thousand years3. Although various explanations for the PETM have been proposed4, 5, 6, a satisfactory model that accounts for the source, magnitude and timing of carbon release at the PETM and successive hyperthermals remains elusive.
Nothing I can do about the paywall. Even scientific journals have to cover their costs.
Try this a a possible mechanism for CO2 release . Warming in the Arctic is encouraging birch forest growth which is accelerating tundra soil decay. The result is increased net CO2 output.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1575.html

It is not so much politicized as corrupted.
These maroons have made so much money and so much social status off of climate hype that politicization is no longer adequate to describe what they are diong.
Kudos to Roger Pielke, jr. for having the nads to point out this sad example.

A paid liar speaking to other paid liars. No problem there. Unless there is a major change in the US in November this will all continue to the detriment of our country as well as others.

The IPCC reports can be downloaded from here.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml#1

I love American politics!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/aug/02/climate-change-political-funding-us