IPCC's Report on Climate Change: Myths & Realities

A massive problem rarely talked about is damage done by non indigionous species, rabbits in Australia, biggest cause of species loss . In South Africa non indiginous plants are causing problems with water supplies, drying up streams etc.
What economic impact do invasive species have on California?
It has been estimated that in California alone, invasive pests cost this state at least $3 billion a year! A recent analysis by the California Invasive Plant Council (Spring 2009) indicates that weeds alone cost California at least $82 million per year. Some estimates suggest that invasive species cost the USA $138 billion per year, and that 42% of endangered US species have reached this status because of invasive species. Globally, 80% of endangered species are threatened primarily by invasive species, only habitat destruction causes greater endangerment of native species.

Unfortunately, Dr. Reddy had to go “organic.” Surely it’s past time for us to recognize that the ‘Big O’ belief system has significant similarities to, and union with, the alarmist belief system. Maybe that’s just my perspective as an agriculturalist, but surely having a mature conversation about our food supply is just as important as having a mature converstation about our energy supply.
Still, I appreciated the rest of Dr. Reddy’s perspective and this post. Looking for complete agreement isn’t wise. After all, if you’re with a group of people you agree with 100%, you’re probably in a cult.

Seth says@6:45
Wrong. Bogus information( mann’s hockey stick, 97% consensus is on agw- not
Cagw,, rising temps.are only .8° c., hardly enough for cagw to be real, lpcc refusing to
Release data to support their bogus claims, co2 is not
Pollution, seas are not rising……wind farms @20% capacity at best,
Cbs news reports 600,000 bats killed in U.S. in 2012.

@jim in South London, OMG, I saw that film at a foreign film festival long long ago. I loved it! As a young child in central Minnesota during the mid 60’s we had “the drills” : the city would announce a special all city drill time during a normal school day so we would here the real ‘simulated nuclear attack horn’. Seems to me during the spring and summer the friday at noon horn was the tornado horn test, and I believe the ‘nuclear horn’ test was on a monday at noon. They would blast the horn and then the school would announce that it was only a test. We would all have to grab our coats and slide our desks to the inside of the classroom by a wall and then we would crawl under the desks. Funny thing I never saw the teacher do it.
Very nostalgic moments going on in this head right now. Not that the thought of nuclear was is imminent is fun, but being 10 is.
Thanks Jim

I quote:
“… there are no clear cut physical principles concerning global warming. It is basically statistical inferences that vary with data and period. The IPCC uses the number of people accepting the predictions to validate it.”
That is so. But what is clear cut is that they insist that humans are causing warming as a result of the greenhouse effect from carbon dioxide. This is something that can be checked. The greenhouse theory states that carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere absorbs outgoing infrared radiation which turns to heat, warms the atmosphere, and causes global warming. Fortunately we know exactly how much carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere and how much is there thanks to the Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii. They tell us that there is more carbon dioxide in the air now than ever before, but unfortunately this record CO2 concentration is unable to cause any warming. Not just for now but for the last 15 years. This is cessation of warming but IPCC is too embarrassed to admit this and wants it called “hiatus,” with the implication that it is only temporary. I assure you there is nothing temporary about it. Clearly our CO2 emissions are not now and never have caused any greenhouse warming. But if 15 years of no-warming is still too skimpy for you, there was a similar lack of warming in the eighties and nineties that lasted for 18 years. The reason that you don’t know about this other no-warming period is that the guardians of official temperature at the IPCC invented a fake warming called “late twentieth century warming” to cover it up. I spotted this when doing research for my book “What Warming?” and even warned about it in the preface to the book. Nothing happened for two years but then, suddenly, last fall, the big three of temperature – GISTEMP, HadCRUT, and NCDC – decided that they don’t want to show this fake warming any more. What they did was to adjust their temperature data for this time slot to parallel the satellites which do not show the warming. It was done secretly and no explanation was offered. The explanation is that I exposed their scam. It required cross-Atlantic coordination to pull it off. Obviously they all knew what this was about. We can now add these “liberated” 18 years of no-warming to the current 15 years of no-warming and find that there has been no greenhouse warming at all for the last 33 years. It is not likely that there was any earlier than that when the amount of CO2 in the air was a lot less. And since greenhouse warming is the life blood of that alleged anthropogenic greenhouse warming we can say now that AGW simply does not exist. It is a pure fantasy. And the entire global warming movement is nothing but a pseudo-scientific farce. Unfortunately this is not a laughing matter because thanks to their propaganda trillions of dollars have been wasted on “mitigating” a non-existent warming.

Richard @ 6:20am
“Globally, 80% of endangered species are threatened primarily by invasive species, only habitat destruction causes greater endangerment of native species.”
Much as I agree with what you say (opossums are a protected species in Australia but are ‘noxious pests’ in New Zeland where they were introduced. Similar ‘noxious pests’ are rabbits, deer, scotch thistle, gorse, broom… and the varroa bee mite, which has devastated our honey bee populations.), I can’t agree with your statement quoted above. If 80% of endangered species are primarily threatened by invasive species then less than 20% can be primarily threatened by anything else, nor, therefore, can anything be a greater primary threat.)

“Global warming is in fact the brainchild to counter The enviromental movement
against pollution (…).”
That’s absurd as saying “the Holocaust is the brainchild to counter antisemitism” or “it became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”

This is the World Meteorological Organization. We have no record of Mr Reddy having worked at WMO. He is most definitely NOT an “insider”

Though his use of the terms “prediction” and “validate,” Dr. Reddy implies the existence of a statistical population which, however, does not exist.

I read the comments. Policy critique asked “amplify” my observation and another suggested to include one or two paragraphs on conclusions.
Amplification –
Traditional agriculture systems were evolved with centuries of experiences of farmers. It is a farming system based, where crops and cropping system practices vary with weather and soil. Thus it was a sustainable agriculture system with low risk and provided food-nutrition and economic security to farmers specifically and villagers in general. The impacts of weather aberrations on agriculture were not high as the input costs were low. With green revolution technology, the scenario changed completely and agriculture became unsustainable with high input costs and food become unhealthy, created new diseases. That is, the so-called green revolution turned into yellow revolution. In this system chemical inputs are the primary component. It basically works under irrigation – on this government investing huge sums. In this system, the traditional mixed/intercropping based farming system was replaced by mono crop system. This lead poor quality fodder and thus animal husbandry slowly disappeared from farming systems. In the traditional agriculture nutrient rich fodder helped animal husbandry. With the green revolution, governments are diversifying large sums towards subsidies on chemical inputs. Thus, the cost of agriculture has gone up, which is causing high risk to farmers. Use of the chemicals in agriculture created air, water, soil and food pollution. Polluted runoff water from agriculture fields created non-point pollution. This affected surface and ground water, rivers and finally oceans. Classical example is the Mississippi River polluting Gulf of Mexico – thousands of kilometers of areas become dead zone. The polluted food introduced new diseases and to cure those diseases drug manufacturing industries & hospitals were/are established, which in turn created air, water, odour pollution. This resulted new diseases. The vicious circle is going on. Under irrigation system the chemical inputs increase the production. For example, the traditional paddy yields range between 1300 to 1500 kg/ha with minimal input costs. The new high yielding seeds increased the yield by 500 kg/ha. The chemical inputs increased by 2000 kg/ha under high input costs. Post harvest losses become large as there are no storage facilities and lack of timely transport facilities. Businessmen took advantage and exploiting farmers – through exports getting benefitted. FAO reported around 30% of the produce is going as waste and my estimate for India is around 40 to 50% and thus to that extent natural resources were wasted. At the cost of governments and farmers, the main beneficiaries under the green revolution agriculture system were chemical inputs producing multinational companies. Even the genetically modified crops system works under this system only. Additionally farmers have to invest more on seeds as they are patented. Here again the seed companies get benefitted and for farmers the cost of inputs goes up and thus risk.
Rachel Carson (1962) book titled “Silent Spring” ignited the environmental movement. This book dealt agriculture related pollution. US Senator took up the task to spread far and wide. At this point of time UN took responsibility on the environmental issues. Environment is facing two sources of pollution, namely point sources and non-point sources. To control or to reduce point source pollution governments brought in laws & Acts as well standards and agencies to monitor them. In the case of non-point source pollution there is no such mechanism as it involves change in technology which needs government intervention and support. The UN initiative concentrated on point sources of pollution – principally industrial & transport pollution and thus on greenhouse gases – and thus converted this on global warming in place of climate change. The environment movement principally started on non-point source of pollution that is agriculture pollution. Here the multinational companies’ interests are involved. This pollution is increasing with the time and without any control.
Conclusions
Ecological changes have both direct and indirect effects on weather & climate in addition to direct impacts on environment & life forms on the Earth. The researchers’ haven’t given that much importance as that given to hypothetical global warming theories as these needs only sophisticated computers without scientifically validated data sets. There is an urgent need to change the mind set in this direction to solve the problems associated with climate change as a long term solution at local and regional scales. The research in the area of agriculture is polluted with global warming projections of IPCC. The national governments must look at the local and regional level weather aberrations patterns to improve the quality of research in agriculture. To achieve the goal national meteorological services must bring out historical facts on weather aberration patterns and natural variations. There is a need to account the physical changes along the coasts before we attribute motives to sea level rise and thus its impact.
Heat-island effect
The terminology is not new. In London a book was published on this subject 250 years back on London temperature. The main cause of urban heat-island effect is the modifications of the land surface by urban development as well its geometry – urban canyon effect – along with air pollution. Destruction of water bodies and greenery amplify the impact.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy

About statistics:
In meteorological elements, we talk of weather and we talk of climate. Climate is statical summary — averages, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, etc. So, when I say within the standard deviation — climate of ice at Antarctica and Arctic –. We compare year to year seasonal trend around the mean [average]. When we have average, that means we also have the standard deviation — a historical fact sheet.
About my association with WMO:
I started my carrier in India Meteorological Department, Pune, India. — My first paper published on climate change relating to onset of monsoon over Kerala Coast, presenting a 52-year cycle — Then Moved to International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid-Tropics [ICRISAT] one of 13 institutes of CGIAR. Here I looked at cyclic variation in few selected locations southern Africa. From here I went to The Australian National University, Canberra/Australia [completed my Ph.D. in around 11 months] — my Ph.D. thesis as scientific articles published in Agric. Meteorol. Journal & renamed Agric. For. Meteorol. journal — published ten papers in this journal. From here moved to Brazil as Consultant to EMBRAPA/IICA/Petrolina [you can find my work in the Brazilian Journal, one of them relates to homogenization of northeast Brazil in terms of precipitation, found 52-year cycle in Fortaleza precipitation data] –. From here moved to Mozambique as FAO/UN expert — you can find my work in the National Agriculture Research Institute Libary — [I went to Argentina as short term FAO-consultant to Ministry of Agriculture]. From there moved to Ethiopia as FAO/UN expert. There the government asked me to move to WMO/UN project as Team Leader – Chief Technical Advisor, which was vacant for three years [as they could not get suitable candidate]. I joined the project. After completing the period, I submitted the project proposals for the extension for three more years. This was accepted by the government, UNDP & WMO. However, I told the government I may not continue as I have other family commitments in India. So, I returned to Hyderabad, India. Since then I first compiled all my work in a book form published — Agroclimatic/Agrometeorological Techniques: As applicable to dry-land agriculture in Developing countries” — book review appeared in Agric. For. Meteorol. [Reviewd by Vice-President in-charge of Agriculture Meteorology in WMO]. After this ten more books were published. Four are available at http://www.scribd.com. I am working voluntarily as environmental issues and also associated with India Meteorological Society. Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademy of Sciences. My biography was included in Who’s Who of Moques (USA).
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy