From the YouTube description:
The IPCC has produced a video on its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The first part on the Working Group I contribution to AR5 is now available. The other parts will be released with the successive approvals of the other two Working Group contributions and the Synthesis Report in the course of 2014.
Watch the video:
A few points.
- Immediately you can see this isn’t produced as a science video, but more in the style of a glossy sales pitch complete with CGI.
- It’s nine minutes of climate cliché bingo. I lost count of the number of crumbling blocks of ice, dried out lake beds, floods, and dark backlit water vapour shots, all delivered in a fast, almost “subliminal advertising” style. The only disappointment was the lack of stranded polar bears on ice floes. The commentary regurgitates all the usual mantras (Paul Matthews)
- There is only a very brief flash of the distinctly unscary temperature record at 2:05. If you blink you might miss it. (Paul Matthews)
- Climate models are by far not as perfect as it is suggested in the video – in fact most climate models cannot even reproduce the observed annual global mean temperature (h/t Eduardo Zorita)
- Many of the scientists on the video act almost as if they are prophets seeing the future, yet there is no mention of the wholesale failure of climate models to match observations. It the sort of sweep it under the rug hyping you expect from televangelists. I loved the scene where Reto Knutti sits behind a computer montor group boldly labeled “PROJECTIONS”, as if done specifically for the video.
- You are immediately hit with a video advertisement, something which is controlled from the poster’s YouTube account. Why would the IPCC need advertising revenue?
- The answer comes in the credits, the video was produced by “Snöball Films” for the IPCC. They bill themselves as “Snöball Film AS is Norway’s leading environment for the development and production of informational and educational film.”, so apparently the IPCC has made a deal to allow them to get ad revenue from YouTube. With 1500+ views so far, it doesn’t look like they’ll get much, OTOH its more view than serial whiner Collin Maessen has had in several months for his “No, Global Warming Hasn’t Stopped” video.
Hilary Ostrov reports in AR5 “The Movie” … tick-tick, boom-boom, doom-doom
Alex Cull has now produced “a transcript, where viewers can read and assess the text, without all the visuals or the soundtrack: https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/home/20131121_ip ”
Pierre Gosslin sums it up:
Nice piece of propaganda with all the vital elements. What stands out to me is the one-sidedness of the video, ignoring the inconvenient truths from Antarctica, failed models and the 15-year warming pause (see 2:05 mark above). And note how these scientists try to come across as prophets who can see centuries ahead. Just the overall air of know-it-all arrogance these scientists take on makes you want to puke on your keyboard.
In summary, any scientist believing the nonsense needs a doctor, or an education in science – beginning from first grade.
@PamelaGray
He’s out there. A lady as clever as you will win. So glad you see right through all this micro argument about 3/5ths of the square root of f&*k all. If barely-there GHG could heat a planet by +33C they’d be piped in to all our lofts and glazing cavities.
If people saw tanks and planes coming at them, they would realise they were under attack. When it comes imposing taxes on minute contributions by industrialised societies to minute quantities of a vital gas, people lose whatever IQ they previously had and start pontificating about how much science they ‘know’.
Just amazing.
@ur momisugly Werner Brozek
Sorry I put an ‘n’ in your name!
My YouTube video link to Lord Monckton didn’t paste so here it is again:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98oshZelqO8
Scute says:
November 24, 2013 at 6:10 pm
@ur momisugly Werner Brozek
Sorry I put an ‘n’ in your name!
No problem!
As for Lord Monckton’s email, I did have it at one time, but I no longer have it. However even if I did, I would not feel that I would be at liberty to share it. However what I will do is let justthefacts know you want it and let him decide how to respond to you. He may either send you his email or ask Lord Monckton himself to read the following and decide how he wants to respond.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/23/the-ipcc-goes-for-video-bling-and-cgi-enhanced-doom/#comment-1483422
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/23/the-ipcc-goes-for-video-bling-and-cgi-enhanced-doom/#comment-1483387
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/23/the-ipcc-goes-for-video-bling-and-cgi-enhanced-doom/#comment-1482993
@ur momisugly Werner Brozek 24th November at 8:04 PM.
Thanks, Werner
Yes, I agree. I wouldn’t want share an email without permission and always do so via the mods (on other sites).
However, simply sending the comments to Lord Monckton is a good Idea. It would achieve as much or more than I could by sending them myself.
As with asking for my comment to be posted to YouTube, with or without my name, I don’t need any recognition if someone competent like Lord Monckton takes it on. I’m better employed ferreting out the next lie.
Scute
IPCCGeneva has had the comments disabled for this video.
Hmmmm I didn’t indtend to imbed the video
Pamela Gray says:
November 24, 2013 at 12:54 pm
“I stand corrected. The end includes three messages AND a call to action to significantly reduce greenhouse gas “usage”. There is only one way to do that: reduce the population of CO2 exhalers. I am guessing that many of these delegates that contribute research, attend meetings and support the IPCC believe in such drastic measures. This includes world leaders. History repeats.”
There was an article in Scientific American a few years back, sorry I cannot quote it, but its implication was exactly your point. It was regarding ice core data that supposedly showed evidence of reduced CO2 increases during the two great plagues of 450 AD and 1450 AD where 40 to 50% ofthe earth’s human population died and caused reduced CO2 at those times. The main thrust of this article was that people create CO2 and methane due to heating, farming and raising livestock irrespective of the technological levels of the times. More people =more harm to the environment. Though I am sure that more people =more CO2, it is not clear that a good solution is less people, not stated as such in the column but the implied logic was evident.
Looks like they’ve disabled comments on the video.
I think I might have to report it for having misleading text.
@ur momisugly Steve Case and Shytot.
Comment and ratings were on until at least 2:00 UTC today (25th Nov). They obviously couldn’t take the heat of all the critical comments and downratings were a third of the total.
The alarmists were defending against all skeptic comments that argued a case along with evidence. However, they were completely silent on my comment which was posted there and above in this stream. I think that speaks volumes about their intention to deceive via the manipulation of graphs and input data.
Its official! so we must take notice says Bill.
Just like all the governments of the world, UN expert economists, bankers, auditors and regulators, world bank (including Lord Stern!) , financial journalists, MSM, uncle tom cobley and all, who missed the rather obvious fact that granting mortgages of 125% of value might be a little crazy. I saw it advertised on the TV and remarked to my wife ” how does that work?”. Seems it didn’t !
Ah well Bill, how could everybody get things wrong.
Anyone out there handy with mutlimedia creation applications?
Genesis’ “Jesus He knows me” lends itself perfectly to a spoof of IPeCaC on YouTube (call it a video response)
suggested lyrics as follows:
IPeCaC they know me
You see the headline on the TV screen
coming at you every COP gab-fest
see that bullshit on the internet
that crap comes from me
On the front page of the news-pa-per
There’s no question why I’m smiling
you buy a future for your children
you buy a piece of me
I’ll give you the future you wanted
Deliver you from 2 degrees and high sea
don’t need to believe in science or fact
just believe in me
Cos Gaia she knows me
and she knows I talk shite
Paid lip service to gaia, all my life
oh yeah you know me
and 97% say I’m right
they’re repeatedly telling me
all the models are alright
I believe in the theory
with my everloving models behind me
but they don’t about the de-cline
or the ice Antarctica grew last night
Do you belive in warming?
Cos that is what I’m selling
and if you don’t wanna get burned
I’ll fleece you right
You wont be able to heat your house
Or get into your car
better not think for yourself
cos my meme’s already spread far
watermellons they know me
and they agree I’m right
I been talking their cod-shit, all my life
oh yes they know me
97 % say I’m right
they’re repeatedly telling me
all the models are alright
won’t catch us paractising what we’re preaching
won’t find us flying no e-con-o-my
but we’ll deliver you from runaway warming
if you pay us lots and try to be green
Carbon tax takes care of you
Just pay like we say, don’t do as we do
I’m counting my blessings
I found paid idleness
and I’m getting richer, day by day
you can find me on sceptical science
or find me on de smog blog
donate to me anyway you want
Just do it right away
There’ll be no denier in your town
You must believe all I’m saying
if you wanna be politically correct
fall to your knees and start paying
cos IPeCaC they know me
they just KNOW I’m right
I been talking runaway warming, all my life
oh yeah, you’ve heard me
the concensus say I’m right
they’re repeatedly telling me
all the models are alright
…Alright!
IpeCaC know me
IpeCaC know me, pay me…
IpeCaC know me
IpeCaC know me, pay me…
deleted comments ? I wonder if we can get a copy from someone’s cache,
( eg. by getting them to disconnect from the internet, before they try to look at the page so that the copy of the cached is shown to them)
„ Climate models are by far not as perfect as it is suggested in the video – in fact most climate models cannot even reproduce the observed annual global mean temperature (h/t Eduardo Zorita) “
E. Zorita is a Co-Author of the 2007 paper: “Detection of Human Influence on a New, Validated 1500-Year Temperature Reconstruction (DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4011.1) by the lead Author G.C. Hegerl. The legendary Gerald Bond has suggested in 2001 a solar influence on the climate on Earth and has believed in a 1500 year cycle.
I have written a comment to the G. Bond article from 2001 http://www.volker-doormann.org/Comment_on_G_Bond_article.doc and have shown that there is no geometry given for a 1500 year cycle http://www.volker-doormann.org/images/bond_3600.jpg, but a 900 year cycle with a significant correlation to a solar function http://www.volker-doormann.org/images/ghi_vs_bond_a.gif , which cycle is also detectable in the paper from Co-Author E. Zorita http://www.volker-doormann.org/images/hegerl_900.gif . Moreover, because the authors have given data from volcano effects on temperature it is possible in general to remove the volcano effects, what is also shown in the graph.
It is now twelve years ago, Gerald Bond has given his data to the community and it is now five years ago, G.C. Hegerl and Co-Author E. Zorita have given their data to the community. Moreover it is well known in the science community that the two Earth axis wobble frequencies creates an interference period of 6.25 years and that some four periods of 6.25 year or every 25 years the main ENSO oscillations will repeat
http://www.volker-doormann.org/images/ensoshift1.gif .
I do not know why the climate science community has not done their job to separate the well known effects from the unknown temperature anomalies (called ‘natural anomalies’) simple by removing the well known effects.
In the same way the volcano effects can be removed from the data, also the ENSO or MEI data can be removed carefully from the observed monthly (!) global mean temperature http://www.volker-doormann.org/images/uah_rss_8_r.gf.gif , because it is necessary to take the time constant into account the heat of the equator becomes global.
The bad situation in the climate scene is not only the result of the bad work of the IPCC, it is also a result of the climate science community’s fail discussing global all the data with the scientific intension to find physically coherence in all the data. Now to direct the finger to the popular IPCC it’s a joke. E. Zorita is aware on the solar 900 year cycles astronomical background since February 2010, and also A.W., who has rejected it as ‘curve fitting’.
It’s the same game as the game of the IPCC game, and ‘no science’, like ‘no sports’.
V.