From the move over Mann department (on a tip from a WUWT reader)
Richard A. Houghton, Ph.D. has made a blatantly false claim on his Woods Hole Research Center webpage that:
“Along with other lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, Dr. Houghton was a recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.”
Source: http://www.whrc.org/about/cvs/rhoughton.html
In a statement of 29 October 2012 the IPCC clarified that the “prize was awarded to the IPCC as an organisation, and not to any individual involved with the IPCC. Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner. It would be correct to describe a scientist who was involved with AR4 or earlier IPCC reports in this way: ‘X contributed to the reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.'” It stated that it had not sent the certificates to “contributing authors, expert reviewers and focal points.
Source: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/Nobel_statement_final.pdf
Even Wiki, that great bastion of information, states the same information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize#cite_note-IPCC_Oct_12-5
Dr. Duffy, President of Woods Hole Research Center, has been contacted on the false claim and we await a correction to Dr. Houghton’s webpage along with a public retraction and apology for promoting false credentials.
In 2014, the U.S. Government (taxpayers) gave $4,984,373 that represented 55.5% of Woods Hole’s research money. It is not known how much money was raised based upon Dr. Houghton’s “Nobel Prize credentials”.
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Well,Dr. Richard Houghton is not the only one. Until April, 2014, recently, Dr Don Wuebbles of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois @ur momisugly Urbana-Champaign had a similar statement on his university website. What changed?
After reading “Climate Change The Facts, 2014″,” I discovered the Nobel Prize ground rules. Therefore, I took the opportunity to write a letter in March 2015, to the editor of the local CHamaign-Urbana News-Gazette online for possible including in his “weekly mailbag” online column,. After a month, my statement was posted and Dr. Wuebbles replied:
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-04-24/toms-mailbag-april-24-2015.html
You have to scroll down to an item labelled “Nobel Prize Kerfuffle” (near the end of he weekly column)
Dr. Wuebbles made some misleading statements which I rebutted in the disucssion section under my nom-de-plume “Rocky 7”. Despite Dr. Wuebble’s disclaimer, the article, the editor’s column ended with a closing sentence, “Wuebbles acknowledged that at one time his page said that she shared the prize, but it no longer does.”
So here is what reader of WUWT could consider doing. Check the web site of your alma mater’s department of Atmospheric Sciences and see if ANY faculty list the Nobel Peace prize as Dr. Houghton and Dr. Wuebbles (at one time) did. Then file a complaint or ethics charge with the university, or local newspaper.
This now reads:
“…Richard A. Houghton, Ph.D.
Dr. Houghton contributed to the reports of the IPCC which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007…”
http://www.whrc.org/about/cvs/rhoughton.html
When you let the sun shine in, the rats, mice, and vermin squirm like the dickens
This means he is reading WUWT.
OK OK now I get it. 95% of the scientists who contributed to the IPCC at one time or another have claimed to have won the Nobel Prize?
Maybe these people are like Rachel Dolezal and “self-identify” as something they can’t be – in this case as a Nobel Prize winner. Rachel, if you haven’t heard, is the newest credibility-challenged NGO official in the most blue of the Pacific North Wet states. I guess it must be true that in Cartoon Land anything is possible.
Because the inventor of dynamite didn’t want his name to be associated with war, he devised a marketing plan to change people’s perception. Thus the “Nobel Peace Prize” began. It’s kind of gone downhill from there!
I was at the Nobel Peace Center today and noticed a display of past winners, including one with the names Al Gore and Rajendra K. Pachauri, without explanation that the award to the IPCC was not to each their hundreds – thousands – of contributors. The Center’s guide asked how combating global warming was related to peace, and I responded that there was no connection. Another tourist said it was about resources, and our guide left it at that. On a similar note, the Nobel people are still struggling to explain the award to Obama. As far as I could determine from their tortured explanations, Obama’s award was based on “hope”, not accomplishment. That seems to explain a lot at the Nobel Peace Center.
WHRC had a mistake in their press release:
http://www.whrc.org/news/pressroom/PR-2015-May-14-Love-your-Mother-Earth.html
I wrote a blog article about that and send email to WHRC. Dr . Houghton kindly answered to me.
https://roskasaitti.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/tutkijan-moka-kopioituu-tehokkaasti/
This mistake was not made by Dr .Houghton but somebody else he tells. You can read email conversation at the bottom of page.
Interestingly enough, who claimed to have won a prize in the field of science?
Looks like someone changed the wording in Dr. Houghton’s bio..You can read for yourself…Dr. Houghton contributed to the reports of the IPCC which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2012, – See more at: http://www.whrc.org/about/cvs/rhoughton.html#sthash.fkYrjJym.dpuf
Here’s another one … https://www.qut.edu.au/news/news?news-id=32089
Just checked his web page – he corrected the oversight but neither Dr. Duffy nor never Dr. Houghton replied to my emails.
Web page now reads “Dr. Houghton contributed to the reports of the IPCC which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.” – See more at: http://www.whrc.org/about/cvs/rhoughton.html#sthash.53qpPxBE.dpuf
Unfortunately, for “common people” it would make no difference at all. When I write “common people”, I mean anyone without a proper technical or scientifical university background (degree): it was hard and useless even to convince my MBA class colleagues, all well-educated professionals but mainly in finance or law, that Nobel Peace Prize is NOT a scientifical/technical award, and so it means nothing at all from the scientifical/technical point of view (see IPCC 2007).
His bogus claim about winning the prize probably got him some cool chicks.
“Hey want to come up and see my Peace Prize?”