The latest IPCC report:

Kill the IPCC says Judith Curry. After decades and billions there is nothing to show for it. And the public conversation finally starts to move on to discussing not whether the IPCC is wrong, but why it was wrong, and what we need to do about it. Credit to Judith Curry and the Financial Post.

Newly appointed IPCC chairman worked for Exxon. Yesterday the IPCC announced they'd found a new leader to replace the oversexed Rajendra Pachauri, who is currently embroiled in a sexual harassment case in India. The new guy is a Korean economist named Hoesung Lee.

Is 'Deliberate Deception' An Unfair Description Of 'Official' IPCC Climate Science? A major challenge for those fighting the manipulations of the IPCC and politicians using climate change for political platforms is that the public cannot believe that scientists would be anything less than completely open and truthful. They cannot believe that scientists would even remain silent even when science is misused. The politicians exploit this trust in science and scientists, which places science in jeopardy. It also allowed the scientific malfeasance of climate science to be carried out in the open.

Climategate & Investigations of IPCC and CRU: Was There a Pattern of Cover Up? Every time a serious threat to IPCC climate science appears, whether scientific or political, diversions and counterattacks are implemented. It usually involves people and agencies at the highest levels, with dissemination and support through major media outlets. One of the earliest examples involved changes to the 1995 IPCC Report Chapter 8 comments agreed on in committee. The response is proportional to the political damage they perceive.

Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model. In 1990, the First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expressed "substantial confidence" that near-term global warming would occur twice as fast as subsequent observation. Given rising CO2 concentration, few models predicted no warming since 2001. Between the pre-final and published drafts of the Fifth Assessment Report, IPCC cut its near-term warming projection substantially, substituting "expert assessment" for models' near-term predictions. Yet its long-range predictions remain unaltered. [...] Once those discrepancies are taken into account, the impact of anthropogenic global warming over the next century, and even as far as equilibrium many millennia hence, may be no more than one-third to one-half of IPCC's current projections.

Perception trumps reality — the IPCC report on the impacts of climate change. The WG2 report contains 1,731 pages of text, figures, boxes, footnotes and references, the first 832 of which list every negative impact climate change is having or could conceivably have on the Earth, its physical state, its ecosystems and the people who populate it. I doubt that anyone has ever read it from beginning to end. I certainly haven't. But the report's mind-numbing length hasn't stopped people from interpreting it the way they think it should be interpreted.

People are Starting to Ask About Motive for Massive IPCC Deception. In a complex deception, the IPCC established a false result, the unproven hypothesis that human CO2 was causing global warming, then used it as the basis for a false premise that justifies the false result. It is a classic circular argument, but essential to perpetuate the phony results, which are the basis of all official climate change, energy, and environmental policies. They successfully fooled the majority and even though many are starting to ask questions about contradictions, the central argument that CO2 is a demon gas destroying the planet through climate change, remains.

German Analysis Finds IPCC "Synthesis" Lacks Facts. The European Institute for Climate and Energy (which goes by its German acronym, EIKE) has done a careful analysis of the IPCC summary for policymakers (SPM) and its synthesis report. These documents purportedly reflect the findings of the IPCC's three volumes assessing the science, vulnerabilities, and possible responses to climate change. The SPM includes significant contradictions, simplifications, and even distortions of the science contained in the full reports. In addition, on major points, its conclusions and warnings stand in stark contrast to almost all of the measurements and trends observed in nature. The EIKE report looks at nine specific claims made in the IPCC's SPM and synthesis report and finds fault with each one.

New IPCC Climate Report: Buy Our Snake Oil or the World Gets It. "Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side," said the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon at the launch of the report yesterday [11/2/2014] in Copenhagen, Denmark. "Those who choose to ignore or dispute the science so clearly laid out in this report do so at great risk for all of us and for our kids and grandkids," said US Secretary of State, John Kerry. What neither appears to have realised is that the report contains no new "science" whatsoever. That is because it is a political document not a scientific one.

UN Climate Panel: Phase Out Fossil Fuels 'Almost Entirely' by 2100. For the first time, the U.N-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the use of fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — will need to be "phased out almost entirely" by the end of the century. The IPCC's latest report, released in Copenhagen Sunday, warns of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems," if action is not taken to reduce emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) globally — with a target of zero by 2100.

I Simply Do Not Care About Global Warming. Let me assure you that the world is not going to end and we are not going to cause ourselves to go extinct. [The IPCC] report is written by a bunch of people who believe in the evolution of humanity, but somehow think mankind is unable to adapt to changing circumstances. The simple fact is that, if they are right and the world is warming, there is nothing we can do short of economic Armageddon to stop it. We've already told most of the third world they have to hide under nets or die of malaria because we do not want them using DDT. We should not now tell them they have to turn off their electricity and never improve their existence because of global warming.

Top climate expert's sensational claim of government meddling in crucial UN report. A top US academic has dramatically revealed how government officials forced him to change a hugely influential scientific report on climate change to suit their own interests. Harvard professor Robert Stavins electrified the worldwide debate on climate change on Friday by sensationally publishing a letter online in which he spelled out the astonishing interference. He said the officials, representing 'all the main countries and regions of the world' insisted on the changes in a late-night meeting at a Berlin conference centre two weeks ago. Three quarters of the original version of the document ended up being deleted.

Obama Administration Wants UN to Come Up With Fake Numbers to Back 'Climate Change' Legislation. The Obama administration is just fraud all the way down. [...] Global temperatures haven't risen in 15 years, but never mind that. Pay no attention to the Sun's role in our climate. The UN report is set for release next week. Plenty of time to inject some happy math.

Earth Daze: Overcoming Environmental Hysteria. A few years back, we were going to be killed by global cooling, overpopulation, pesticide residues, West Nile virus, bird flu, Y2K, cellphone radiation, mad cow disease, etc. Now it's global warming. Reporters don't make these scares up. The recent hype about global warming comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Most of its members are serious scientists. But reporters don't realize that those scientists, like bird flu specialists, have every incentive to hype the risk. If their computer models (which so far have been wrong) predict disaster, they get attention and money. If they say, "I'm not sure," they get nothing. Also, the IPCC is not just a panel of scientists. It's an intergovernmental panel. It's a bureaucracy controlled by the sort of people who once ran for student council and are "exhilarated by the prospect of putting the thumb of the federal government on the scale."

The world must shift to solar and wind power rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists in major report. A rapid shift to wind and solar power is needed if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming, the United Nations warns in a crucial report today [4/13/2014]. Emissions of greenhouse gases need to be cut by up to 70 percent before 2050 to control climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says. 'Large-scale changes in energy systems' are required, with coal power stations to be switched off and replaced by wind and solar.

How the Obama administration turned the latest IPCC report into meaningless gobbledegook. Even by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's own lamentable standards, its new report — by Working Group III of the Fifth Assessment Report — makes no sense whatsoever. Perhaps it never did but what definitely made it worse was the politicised meddling of the Obama administration.

U.N. climate alarmism on food supply all bunk, other scientific group says. Scientists who serve on a panel that's sort of the antithesis to the U.N.-tied International Panel on Climate Change — the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change — said the scare-mongering that's been making media rounds about dwindling food supplies due to atmospheric fluctuations is just that, nothing but bunk. "All across the planet, the historical increase in the atmosphere's CO2 concentration has stimulated vegetative productivity," said the report, "Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts," Fox News said. "This observed stimulation, or greening of the Earth, has occurred in spite of many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation, including fires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation and climatic change."

UN finding on climate change is just a bunch of hot air, new report claims. A U.N.-commissioned panel says climate change is hurting the growth of crops, affecting the quality of water supplies and forcing wildlife to change the way it lives — but what if it's all just smoke and mirrors? A new report from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), written by an international collection of scientists and published by the conservative Heartland Institute, claims just that, declaring that humanity's impact on climate is not causing substantial harm to the Earth.

UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster. David Cameron's commitment to the green agenda will come under the fiercest scrutiny yet this week when top climate-change experts will warn that only greater use of renewable energy — including windfarms — can prevent a global catastrophe. A report by the world's leading authorities will expose a growing gulf between a Tory party intent on halting construction of more onshore windfarms and the world's leading scientists, who see them as one of the cheapest ways to provide energy while at the same time saving the environment.

Kerry on UN climate change report: 'Costs of inaction are catastrophic'. The release of a United Nations report detailing the pervasive effects of climate change should serve as a call to action for the world's nations to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Secretary of State John Kerry argued Sunday night [3/30/2014]. In a statement issued by the State Department, Kerry called denial of climate change science "malpractice" and warned the "costs of inaction are catastrophic." "Read this report and you can't deny the reality: Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy," Kerry said.

The Editor says...

The cost of inaction is zero has always been zero. Anyone who spends money trying to alter next month's weather is an idiot.

Green 'smear campaign' against professor who dared to disown 'sexed up' UN climate dossier. The professor who refused to sign last week's high-profile UN climate report because it was too 'alarmist', has told The Mail on Sunday he has become the victim of a smear campaign. Richard Tol claims he is fighting a sustained attack on his reputation by a key figure from a leading institution that researches the impact of global warming. Prof Tol said: 'This has all the characteristics of a smear campaign. It's all about taking away my credibility as an expert.'

Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will shortly publish the second part of its latest report, on the likely impact of climate change. [...] But the actual report, known as AR5-WGII, is less frightening than its predecessor seven years ago. The 2007 report was riddled with errors about Himalayan glaciers, the Amazon rain forest, African agriculture, water shortages and other matters, all of which erred in the direction of alarm. This led to a critical appraisal of the report-writing process from a council of national science academies, some of whose recommendations were simply ignored.

The Collapsing Soufflé of Climate Change. The climate campaign is collapsing faster than one of my popover recipes made with old flour and not enough milk. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to release on Monday [3/31/2014] the report of Working Group II, on the projected impacts of climate change. AP environmental stenographer Seth Borenstein tried to get out ahead of the report a few days ago with a piece trumpeting that the dangers from climate change are going to be severe, and that they're here right now.

Threat level: Woo-woo-woo ding-ding woo-woo-woo!

Climate impacts 'overwhelming' — UN. The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned. [...] In the words of the report, "increasing magnitudes of warming increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts". "Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri told journalists at a news conference in Yokohama.

Global Warming Will Cause War, Pestilence, Famine and Death, Says New IPCC Report Inevitably. The real take-home story of the new report we already learned last week: that the latest estimates of the economic costs of "climate change" are considerably lower than previous projections; so much lower, in fact, that the costs could be offset by just a month's global economic growth. It's to obscure this inconvenient truth that the Big Green Propaganda Machine will now be cranking into overdrive.

"I Can See Climate Change From My House". The "impacts" report of the IPCC is out today, and we'll try to get through some of the highlights of the thousand-page plus report. (Always reminds me of Churchill's note about an overlong memo: "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read." We'll take the risk.) Turns out that an acquaintance of mine helped write the FAQ portion of the report.

The IPCC's Latest Report Deliberately Excludes And Misrepresents Important Climate Science. This week, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is releasing its latest report, the "Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report." Like its past reports, this one predicts apocalyptic consequences if mankind fails to give the UN the power to tax and regulate fossil fuels and subsidize and mandate the use of alternative fuels. But happily, an international group of scientists I have been privileged to work with has conducted an independent review of IPCC's past and new reports, along with the climate science they deliberately exclude or misrepresent.

UN author says upcoming climate report 'alarmist'. One of the authors of a draft United Nations report aimed at helping governments reach an international climate agreement has pulled out of the writing team, claiming his colleagues were being too "alarmist" about the threat of climate change, Reuters reported. Richard Tol, a professor of economics at Sussex University in England, said he disagreed with some findings of the summary to be released later this month in Japan, where scientists from 100 countries are currently meeting to edit and approve the report. "The drafts became too alarmist," Tol told Reuters, acknowledging that some other authors "strongly disagree with me."

Climate change: the debate is about to change radically. The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due out next week. If the leaked draft is reflected in the published report, it will constitute the formal moving on of the debate from the past, futile focus upon "mitigation" to a new debate about resilience and adaptation. [...] So the mitigation deal has become this: Accept enormous inconvenience, placing authoritarian control into the hands of global agencies, at huge costs that in some cases exceed 17 times the benefits even on the Government's own evaluation criteria, with a global cost of 2 percent of GDP at the low end and the risk that the cost will be vastly greater, and do all of this for an entire century, and then maybe — just maybe — we might save between one and ten months of global GDP growth.

Global Warming Will Not Cost the Earth, Leaked IPCC Report Admits. Previous reports — notably the hugely influential 2006 Stern Review — have put the costs to the global economy caused by 'climate change' at between 5 and 20 percent of world GDP. But the latest estimates, to be published by Working Group II of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, say that a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of the century will cost the world economy between just 0.2 and 2 percent of its GDP.

The Coming Paradigm Shift on Climate. We may be on the threshold of a tipping point in climate history. No, I'm not talking about a tipping point in the sense that the Earth will be covered with ice or become hellishly hot. I'm talking about a tipping point in our views of what controls the climate — whether it's mainly humans or whether it's mainly natural. It makes an enormous difference in climate policy: Do we try to mitigate, at huge cost, or do we merely adapt to natural changes — as our ancestors did for many millennia?

A New Study Says Benefits of Global Warming Greatly Exceed Costs. A new study by the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change shows that the benefits of a warming earth will outweigh any costs incurred. [...] Global warming advocates will dismiss this report — as they have all others that don't conform to the "consensus" view — as coming from paid industry hacks. They will smear the authors while failing to answer any of the specific points made in the study. How can they since it counters their hysteria so effectively?

Global warming is 'almost definitely' caused by humans, UN report claims. Global warming is unequivocal and human influence has been the dominant cause since the mid-20th century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC's full and final findings on the state of the planet's climate have been published and the report, which was put together for the UN, says that limiting climate change will require 'substantial and sustained' reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings of the report, which includes the comment that global warming is 'almost definitely' caused by humans, were approved by the member governments of the IPCC in September.

Climate Change Alarm Is A U.N. Extortion Racket. Reports out of Warsaw, Poland, say that 132 nations walked out of the United Nations climate conference Wednesday. Are they upset over global warming? No, they just want more money from rich countries.

UN climate conference COP19 tells blatant lies to the public about sea level rise & snow cover. Sea levels have been rising naturally for the past 20,000 years since the peak of the last ice age, and at much, much faster rates in the past (up to 40 times faster than today). Sea level rise greatly decelerated about 8,000 years ago to rates similar to today. [...] Sea levels are currently rising 4 to 8 inches per century, and there is no acceleration, which means there is no evidence of a human influence on sea levels.

IPCC's Bogus Evidence for Global Warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up by the United Nations in 1988 and has been trying very hard to demonstrate the threat of a dangerous human influence on climate due to the emission of greenhouse gases. [...] It is interesting that IPCC "evidence" was based on peer-reviewed publications — but (reluctantly) abandoned only after protracted critiques from outside scientists. E-mails among members of the IPCC team, revealed in the 2009 'Climategate' leak, describe their strenuous efforts to silence such critiques, often using unethical methods.

IPCC's Bogus Evidence for Global Warming. I will show here that the first three IPCC assessment reports contain erroneous scientific arguments, which have never been retracted or formally corrected, but at least have now been abandoned by the IPCC — while the last two reports, AR4 and AR5, use an argument that seems to be circular and does not support their conclusion.

Decision-Based Evidence-Making: More Disgrace From UN Panel on Climate Change. Most science teachers undergo the unpleasant experience of catching students fudging experimental data so as to yield desired results. If the data is not easily faked, students may simply run the experiment repeatedly until the "right" data are collected. They then discard the contradictory data. Some such cheaters make it right through the education system; perhaps some become politicians, willing to direct staff to find evidence supporting decisions they have already made for political reasons. So it goes with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which deserves to be disbanded following the release of their latest report.

Networks Embrace IPCC Report's Fraudulent Warnings. Temperatures have flat-lined for 15 years, the Arctic and Antarctic are gaining record amounts of ice, most computer models have been wrong, yet the networks are buying into the alarmists' narrative.

The climate alarmists have lost the debate: it's time we stopped indulging their poisonous fantasy. IPCC lead author Dr Richard Lindzen has accused [the IPCC] of having "sunk to a level of hilarious incoherence." Nigel Lawson has called it "not science but mumbo jumbo". The Global Warming Policy Foundation's Dr David Whitehouse has described the IPCC's panel as "evasive and inaccurate" in the way it tried dodge the key issue of the 15-year (at least) pause in global warming; Donna Laframboise notes that is either riddled with errors or horribly politically manipulated — or both; [...]

Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is 'hilariously' flawed. A top climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lambasted a new report by the UN's climate bureaucracy that blamed mankind as the main cause of global warming and whitewashed the fact that there has been a hiatus in warming for the last 15 years. "I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence," Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site. "They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase."

The Climate-Change Circus. The IPCC's fifth assessment report is another politico-scientific document.

IPCC Backpedals on Extreme Weather Claims. Embarrassed by the current decade-and-a-half period without any global warming, those calling for worldwide action to halt climate change have shifted focus to worries about extreme weather events. It makes sense, of course, for alarmists to direct attention away from something that isn't happening — global warming — towards frightening stories about something that could conceivably be occurring. Unfortunately for the alarmists — but fortunately for the rest of us — both independent scientific observations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's own latest report (released on Monday) make it clear that a warming of the Earth is not leading to an increase in extreme weather. In fact, the opposite seems to be the case.

Global Warming: The Biggest Lie Exposed. I will never understand the kind of thinking behind a lie so big that it became an international fraud and swindle. I cannot understand why an international organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) operating under the umbrella of the United Nations, was permitted to issue reports of an imminent threat to the Earth, to mankind, that a freshman student of meteorology would know were false. [...] Well, of course, they were wrong. The so-called "science" on which they were based was idiotic. It focused primarily on carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called "greenhouse gases", claiming they were trapping heat while being produced by all manner of human activity related to generating energy with coal, oil, and natural gas.

Climate change: this is not science — it's mumbo jumbo. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report, compiled by 259 leading scientists, warned that without "substantial and sustained reductions" of greenhouse gas emissions, the world will experience more extreme weather. However, critics have questioned the scientists' use of computer forecasting, which, they say, has produced fatalistic scenarios that fail to take into account fully that atmospheric temperatures have barely changed in the past 15 years.

'No children, happy to go extinct', tweets weatherman after grim climate-change report. Eric Holthaus was reacting to the findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which released a report on Friday that found it was 'extremely likely' that humans are causing warming trends seen in the last several decades.

Why the IPCC should never be taken seriously. [S]ince the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the general public has become more sceptical about the alleged danger. I cannot begin to outline all the reasons for this increased skepticism, although a major one has been that since 1997 temperatures have hardly increased, despite strongly increased emissions. It cannot be denied, for example, that modeled predictions of temperatures have failed badly. Other reasons include the revelation in the Climategate emails between so-called experts that they are uncertain about the science, and even prepared to manipulate data to produce results that fitted the dangerous-warming thesis.

17 Year Warming Hiatus Causes Panic Cover Up. IPCC Duplicity Continues. The tragic fact is that global temperature has declined slightly for 17 years while CO2 levels increased. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hypothesis said that if CO2 increased temperature would increase. The hypothesis is slain. Instead of acknowledging the hypothesis is wrong, as science requires, the defenders advance bizarre explanations none of which bear examination. According to the IPCC what is happening can't happen.

Band-aids Can't Fix the New IPCC Report. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today [9/27/2013] released the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the physical science volume of its Fifth Assessment Report. [...] The Humpty Dumpty-esque report once claiming to represent the "consensus of scientists" has fallen from its exalted wall and cracked to pieces under the burdensome weight of its own cumbersome and self-serving processes, which is why all the governments' scientists and all the governments' men cannot put the IPCC report together again. The pace of climate science far surpasses the glacial movements of large, cumbersome international efforts at consensus building, such as the IPCC, which is why the new report has experienced such a disastrous crack-up.

Dodgy dossier on global warming. The dystopian predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are now awaited by the saner elements of the population with the same keen anticipation as the special edition of a favourite television comedy show on Christmas Day. So far, we have the Summary for Policymakers, the travesty document in which the claims of the scientists are massaged by politicians to meet their fiscal requirements; dossiers do not come any dodgier than this.

United Nations Climate Change Report Wrong As Usual. 'It is extremely likely (95% confidence)," says the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that "more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together." And the last 15 or 16 years during which there has been no warming (even though the climate models the IPCC has put its faith in projected continued warming)? That's just not enough time, says the IPCC, to draw any conclusions.

As Its Global Warming Narrative Unravels, The IPCC Is In Damage Control Mode. The IPCC is in full damage-control mode after it leaked advance copies of an upcoming Summary for Policymakers to what it assumed would be friendly journalists. The journalists, however, quickly realized the IPCC Summary for Policymakers contained several embarrassing walk-backs from alarmist statements in prior IPCC reports. Two of the most embarrassing aspects of the Summary for Policymakers are (1) IPCC's admission that global warming has occurred much slower than IPCC previously forecast and (2) IPCC is unable to explain the ongoing plateau in global temperatures.

Global Warming Believers Are Feeling the Heat. On Friday [9/27/2013] the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers its latest verdict on the state of man-made global warming. Though the details are a secret, one thing is clear: the version of events you will see and hear in much of the media, especially from partis pris organisations like the BBC, will be the opposite of what the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report actually says.

It's a Cooked Book. The AP itself uses the term "climate skeptics," which is less pointed than "denialists" but is still problematic. The purported opposition between "skeptics" and adherents to "the scientific consensus" is nonsensical, for skepticism is at the very heart of the scientific method. When the data call a theory into question, a scientist revisits the theory. Instead, the panel is employing the antiscientific method: It "is expected to affirm" the theory "with greater certainty than ever." And look how the AP sums up that theory: "that humans are cooking the planet by burning fossil fuels and cutting down CO2-absorbing forests." That's science fiction, not science.

Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report. When the IPCC issues a report, it assures the world that the organization bases its conclusions on reputable, peer-reviewed scientific literature, and that its members are comprised of the world's top experts and best scientists. Yet when IPCC personnel answered a 2010 questionnaire sponsored by the InterAcademy Council (a network of national science academies), there were repeated complaints about unqualified individual members. For example, one individual (the responses to the questionnaire were anonymized) said there are "far too many politically correct appointments" involving people with "insufficient scientific competence to do anything useful."

95 per cent of intelligent people know the new IPCC report is utter drivel. The irony is, of course, that the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports were all produced in a period of rising CO2 levels in which there has been no "global warming" whatsoever. You'd imagine that, had the scientific method been more highly valued by the IPCC, this rather glaring flaw in AGW theory might have been afforded more prominence. But this is not the IPCC Assessment Reports' job. As Christopher Booker and others have often noted, the IPCC's reports are essentially political artefacts rather than scientific ones.

Has The IPCC Overstated How Much Earth Has Warmed? The Daily Mail says it has obtained a leaked copy of the final report and discloses that the IPCC "makes the extraordinary concession that the world has been warming at only just over half the rate claimed by the IPCC in its last assessment, published in 2007." Reporting for the Daily Mail, David Rose writes that "back then," the IPCC said "the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade — a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models. "But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade — a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction."

The Editor says...

It is interesting to see they have selected 1951 as the starting point for an allegedly constant increase in global temperatures, since most of the warming in the 20th century occurred before 1940. Measuring the rate of increase between 1951 and now is not a valid way to forecast the temperature in 2099. From the figures I've seen, the rate of change, and the direction of that change, are unpredictable.

A science-based rebuttal to global warming alarmism. The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program. Over the last 25 years, the IPCC became the "gold standard" of climate science, quoted by all the governments of the world. IPCC conclusions are the basis for climate policies imposed by national, provincial, state, and local authorities. Cap-and-trade markets, carbon taxes, ethanol and biodiesel fuel mandates, renewable energy mandates, electric car subsidies, the banning of incandescent light bulbs, and many other questionable policies are the result.

Global warming is just HALF what we said: World's top climate scientists [...]. A leaked copy of the world's most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong. The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive, six-yearly 'assessments' are accepted by environmentalists, politicians and experts as the gospel of climate science. They are cited worldwide to justify swingeing fossil fuel taxes and subsidies for 'renewable' energy.

The Editor says...

The amount of global warming isn't just half of the predicted amount — it's practically zero.

About that whole global warming thing. A leaked report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world is not warming but actually cooling, and will continue to get colder until the middle of the century. You remember the IPCC, right? It's the group whose 2007 report on global warming said that snow would disappear from everywhere but the highest mountains, icebergs would melt, sea levels would rise, deserts would spread, people would die in heat waves and pretty much the earth was going to end if we didn't immediately destroy our carbon-fueled economy with job-killing government regulations.

The UN Climate Panel's 'Hot Spot' is Missing in Action. The Second Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN's climate-science panel (IPCC-AR2, 1996), invented the Hot-Spot in the tropical atmosphere about 10 km above the earth's surface and assumed, mistakenly, it was proof of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). But the hotspot has never been demonstrated observationally. The Fifth IPCC Report (AR5, to be released on Sept 27, 2013) conveniently ignores this inconvenient fact.

Draft IPCC Report Shows 20 Years Of Overestimated Globull Warming. At one point, Warmists might have been actually interested in real science, but, that quickly switched to pushing junk science in order to move forward their Marxist ideas of people control.

A tsunami of governmental global warming lies. It's bad enough when major environmental organizations continue to lie about a "global warming" that does not exist in lieu of a planetary cooling cycle now entering its 17th year, but when those allied with the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are also in charge of producing a government report on it, the public is being lied to in ways that obscure their bias and agenda.

This Is Called Cheating (Part 1). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says it conducts no research of its own. It says it merely surveys the already-available scientific literature on climate change and figures out what it all means. But that's not what actually happens. In 2010 an IPCC insider told InterAcademy Council investigators that scientists who wish to include certain information in IPCC reports sometimes manufacture made-to-order journal articles.

IPCC Gets It Backwards, Drought Causes Warming. Researchers found that drought causes higher temperatures, not the other way around.

One of Germany's earliest green energy investors, is not convinced that humanity is causing catastrophic global warming.



This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2013 by Andrew K. Dart

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