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Here is slide 1 of a recent presentation in Finland by Rajenda Pachauri, head of the IPCC. I’ve added Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth for comparison.
What is even more troubling is how Pachauri presents his own SREX report on severe weather:
Pachauri of course completely ignores this part of the IPCC SREX report:
From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):
- “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change”
- “The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados”
- “The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
The report even takes care of tying up a loose end that has allowed some commentators to avoid the scientific literature:
“Some authors suggest that a (natural or anthropogenic) climate change signal can be found in the records of disaster losses (e.g., Mills, 2005; Höppe and Grimm, 2009), but their work is in the nature of reviews and commentary rather than empirical research.”
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/03/handy-bullshit-button-on-disasters-and.html
h/t to Matti H. Virtanen
See Pachauri’s slideshow here: http://koliforum.fi/dr-rajendra-pachauris-presentation/
and I have it backed up here in case it disappears:
Dr-Pachauris-Bio-economy-presentation-aug12_2013 (PDF)
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The latest (sorry I am not computer savvy enough) to put this in the right place > ” BBC ” Trees in Europe cannot absorb any more carbon” due to age, urban development , etc, etc ( I guess new landscaping lawns, farming etc., have all gotten old as well, like as in overnight?
Tobias saw this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23712464
Now, you may all share in the BBC’s gullible alarmism. It’s pars such as the one below that make me think there is no end to the ways that are being dreamed up to pick our pockets as operating and policing such a policy would cost us all dearly.
“One potential solution is a pan-European, legally binding agreement on forest management that would look to balance the ecological value of forests against the trees’ commercial and climate mitigation value.”
Uh-oh.
Tobias saw this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23712464
Now, you may all share in the BBC’s alarmism for the gullible. It’s pars such as the one below that make me think there is no end to the ways that are being dreamed up to pick our pockets as operating and policing such a policy would cost us all dearly.
“One potential solution is a pan-European, legally binding agreement on forest management that would look to balance the ecological value of forests against the trees’ commercial and climate mitigation value.”
Uh-oh.
Help! I wanted to amend my post and delete the first try. Sorry, but I failed to find the way to do so…
Pachauri has long since forfeited the right to be a Chair of anything. Say “Tata” to Railroad Bill, if you take our meaning.
John Blake on August 19, 2013 at 7:39 am
Don’t you mean Climate Bob?
“Some scenarios show that a 1 in 20 year hottest day is likely to become a 1 in 2 year event…”
Beautiful sleight of hand. Let me paraphrase; “If you tilt your head, the 1:20 change of a hottest day becomes a 1:2 chance”.
Ric Werme says:
August 17, 2013 at 10:15 am
“I wonder if Rajenda Pachauri has taken Al Gore’s presenter training.”
Well, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN FCCC, certainly has, check out http://sppiblog.org/news/a-nest-of-carbon-vipers.