Former UN Official says climate report will shock nations into action
John Gardner writes in with an entry from the “worse than we thought” department:
The IPCC seems to be pre-empting the growing skeptical science by preparing to issue an ‘its even worse than we thought’ report in 2013, according to a report in the Australian newspaper.
“The Brisbane Times’, which quotes Ivo De Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen talks. He is quoted “That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone,”
Mr De Boer said in the only scheduled interview of his visit to Australia.
“I’m confident those scientific findings will create new political momentum.”
Oh another IPCC report trying to scare us…how quaint.
Seriously, are they TRYING to make themselves irrelevant? Or do they think “crying wolf” really works out in the end?
So their solution is to lie harder?
I think this will have the opposite effect, as clearly things are not getting any warmer anywhere.
They have cried wolf too often, no one believes them anymore – even Obama is going to use the tax money for general spend.
The ship’s on fire and the rats have already left it.
The delusion continues unabated at the IPCC then. You would have thought that their past errors and ridiculous discredited reports would have taught them a thing or too? I guess the moneys just too good.
I see – it will shock political leaders to see just how craven, dishonest and desperate the climate science community has become.
It doesn’t matter how creatively you cry wolf when there is no wolf.
There needs to be a high-profile “anti-IPCC” report released at the same time, pointing to no warming since 1998, no sea level rise (tide guages) visible at all, recent warming attributable to ENSO alone, doubts about CO2 radiative effects and saturation, nonsense of ocean acidification, no CAGW in proxy record, Climategate, etc. etc…
Credibility approaching zero.
Either he hasn’t read the draft of the IPCC report, in which case he’s making things up, or he has read it, in which case he’s breaking the IPCC rules that say you should not discuss the contents of the draft.
For now, the inmates have overrun the asylum. The only way, IMOP, will be for them to freeze out. To chill out is not enough.
Political momentum, that’s all climate change has ever been about.
They are doubling down on the groupthink. Time to go Galt — it may soon be everyone’s patriotic duty to refuse to pay taxes.
The operative word here is ‘gaslighting’. When people skilled in gaslighting have their backs against the wall they automatically go on the offensive however brazen and incongruous it may be. I find this quite insulting, given the 16 year flatline in temps.
1st cry: “Wolf!”
(nobody sees the wolf)
2nd cry: “Bad Wolf!”
(people start asking ‘Wolf?’ but still can’t see it)
3rd cry: “Big Bad Wolf!”
(people start asking “Where? I can’t see it!”)
4th cry: “There is a wolf coming that is so big, bad, and scary, I can’t tell you about it right now!”
(people start asking “Why are we listening to this twit?”)
Hmm, I accidentally just finished reading the First Order Draft draft of the AR5 SPM, but given that the last two IPCC reports didn’t lead to political momentum or scare the wits out of everyone I am quite sure that this report will not do that either.
With the US re-election of a President, who desires to wield excessive government, all governmental (and international governmental)agencies will now take the opportunity to grab for power and money. Old problems will be brought back and upgraded and new problems will be trumpeted loudly as being the worst things ever to happen. The solution will be as ever: More Urgent Stories, More Fear, More pressure, More Tax, More Rules, More Laws, More misery.
There has been an ongoing counterattack since the leaks from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
http://drtimball.com/2012/climate-science-falsehoods-repeated-with-pr-orchestrated-
counterattack/
One example was the Shakun et al paper claiming the ice core record shows CO2 increase precedes temperature. The paper was dissected and rejected by three papers here;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/11/shakun-the-last-i-hope/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/08/did-shakun-et-al-really-prove-that-co2-precede-late-glacial-warming-part-1/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/07/shakun-redux-master-tricksed-us-i-told-you-he-was-tricksy/
The Shakun paper was published with a many authors in the journal Nature.
It will be included in AR5, but was published at a date that made “peer reviewed” counter arguments too late for inclusion. It will be presented as uncontested.
It appears De Boer has disclosed what he knows is going on.
That means they will be lying even more than in AR 4.
Hell with the global atmospheric climate, the global political climate scares the wits outa me.
In your dreams, De Boer.
With the re-election of Obama, you better be scared
I wonder what the forecast for the sea level rise was from the first IPCC for 2010 to 2020. How did that compare with what has really happened? I assume it wildly overestimated what actually happened. As we have seen with some recent sea level articles the data dont support the scare tactics.
If the Speaker of the House caves and submits as he has done on the budget for the last three years, then the USA may indeed respond to this new “crisis”.
“I’m confident those scientific findings” I’m sure that the blogosphere will quickley find flaws in those findings. I’m thinking Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 etc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8387737.stm
He said superstorm Sandy may spur more Americans, and people elsewhere, to consider the risks of climate change, but warned: “It’s a bit like being shocked into stopping smoking when you’ve been told you’ve got terminal cancer.”
They do love bringing up cancer don’t they.
What sort of action seems appropriate?… Tying up and gagging IPCC authors?
Just askin’