IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

Nationalpost ^ | February 08, 2010, | Lawrence Solomon

[opentalk]

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson.

The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.” In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times, in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must tackle its blunders.

Watson’s comments come on the heels of another glaring embarrassment to come out of the IPCC, this time a claim that global warming could cut crop production in north Africa by up to 50% by 2020. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change,” Watson stated. “I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report.”

... Apart from his post as past IPCC chair, Watson is also the UK’s highest level environmental scientist, as Chief Scientist at the UK’s environment ministry. Prior to his current position, which he assumed in 2007, Watson was Chair of Environmental Science and Science Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, the same university caught up in the Climategate scandal.

Watson’s new-found scepticism of the science being produced by the IPCC represents an ironic reversal. In 2002, he remarked that "The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“The only person who doesn’t believe the science is President Bush.”

More flawed data from GW conartists.

I was studying the issue back then. I didn’t believe the lies that he refers to as science and there were countless scientists objecting to the “science.”

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Hohoho! It’s Merry Snowstorm and Global Warming Meltdown.

The Green Police should go play with the drowning polar bears.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"In 2002, he remarked that "The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."

He can now correct his statement and say, the only one that believes the science is wannabe President Gore.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

As for the John McCain vs. Hayworth Primary, McCain has been waffling on this issue. As I understand it, Hayworth was rock-solid in opposition. That would make Hayworth and GW Bush visionaries.

McCain should go play with a cactus.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Right on. Bush was a visionary regarding global warming. So were all the top talk radio hosts. Wizards of smart.

‘Miss Me Yet?’: Mystery Surrounds Who Paid for George Bush Billboard
http://www.breitbart.tv/miss-me-yet-mystery-surrounds-who-paid-for-george-bush-billboard

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Just imagine if the Climategate Emails had never been hacked? McCain and Nancy Grahamnesty would be on board for Crap and Tax.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Let’s not forget this RECENT report:

2010-01-27

Graham: Congress Needs A ‘Win’ On Climate Policy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440629/posts
Timing, Grahamnesty, timing. Ever hear about Climatgate? [Good grief.]

[Global warming link blast coming, much of which is Kithen’s excellent link list.]

[Scotswife]

And let’s not forget the wise wors from then-Governor Sarah Palin during her interview with Diane Sawyer.

I remember a scene where Palin took Sawyer on a tour of the pipeline and Diane began her AGW questioning.

Sarah raised the possibility AGW could be cyclical, and could have natural causes as well.

Remember how she was mocked?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Drowning Polar Bears!

RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html

Drudge headlines over the weekend:
Historic snowstorm rages on...
Paralyzing nation’s capital...
200,000+ without power in DC metro...
Nearing all-time storm total snowfall record for Baltimore...
Snow measurements for DC/MD/VA/WVA...
Multipe Roof Collapses Around Region...
Up to 30 inches in parts of Philadelphia...
Severe Winter Storm Striking Mid-Atlantic...
[Related, outside Drudge]
‘Snowmageddon’ blankets Mid-Atlantic in heavy snow
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445883/posts

PEW: Global warming ranks dead last as concern for Americans...
http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010.

Democratic Climate Revolt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2446552/posts?page=9

The IPCC’s Latest Climate Change Blunder “To Boldly Go Where No Stupidity Has Gone Before.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2446504/posts

CLIMATE SCANDAL PROFESSOR: I THOUGHT OF KILLING MYSELF...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017922.ece

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FReeper Kitchen’s link blast:

Holes in climate science:

http://research.fit.edu/sealevelriselibrary/documents/doc_mgr/328/Global_Holes_in_Climate_Science_-_Nature_2010.pdf
Climate-gate:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18584

http://www.createspace.com/3423467

Glacier-gate (aka Pachauri-gate):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/20/panels-glacier-disaster-claims-melting-away/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7062667/Pachauri-the-real-story-behind-the-Glaciergate-scandal.html

Amazon-gate:

http://www.hotair.com/archives/2010/01/26/more-bogus-agw-information-in-ipcc-report/http://grandrants.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/discredited-scientific-theory-receives-yet-another-blow/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece

Thermometer-gate:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport_spring09.pdf
Temperature-gate:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+using+selective+temperature+data+skeptics/2468634/story.html

Greenhouse-gate:

http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpb/23/2303/S021797920904984X.html
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/index.html

Greenland-gate:

http://www.cfact.org/a/886/Melting-the-facts-about-Greenlands-ice-sheet
IPCC-gate:

Scandal Deepens: UN IPCC Lead Author Turns on Pachauri: Calls for his Resignation – Declares IPCC ‘tainted by political advocacy’
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/26/terence-corcoran-heat-wave-closes-in-on-the-ipcc.aspx

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,673944,00.html

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19458

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html

NASA-gate:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514429
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/03/researcher-says-nasa-hiding-climate-data/

NODC-gate:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/31/nodc-revises-ocean-heat-content-data/#more-15879
Climate crooks:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7004936.ece
http://www.cfact.org/a/1652/Monckton-names-names-on-Climategate

32,000 scientists [the Oregon Petition AGAINST global warming]:

http://www.oism.org/pproject/

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‘The great global warming collapse’...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-great-global-warming-collapse/article1458206

UNBELIEVABLE ! Still Another IPCC Screw-Up Found
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2446092/posts

Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility [UK Times]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446028/posts

Graham: Congress Needs A ‘Win’ On Climate Policy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440629/posts
Timing, Grahamnesty, timing. Ever hear about Climatgate? [Good grief.]

12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20091202135822.aspx

Boxer: Hackers should face criminal probe over ‘Climategate’ - The ...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/70249-boxer-hacked-climategate-emails-may-face-criminal-probe
Dec 2, 2009 ... Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.

Climategate Mashup
http://www.infowars.com/climategate-mashup/
CLIMATEGATE!!! arrest al gore! protos Says: November 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm. Way to go hackers. Now we need you to expose the rest of their Lies. ...

YouTube – Lord Monckton on Climategate: Whistle Blower, Not A “Hacker”.
http://climategate.tv/?p=451

Van Jones [communist revolutionary] on the Advisory Board of the Presidential Climate Action Project
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2436607/posts

UN scientist admits unverified data used for politics...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html
Calls for UN climate chief to resign...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100023489/pachauri-must-quit-as-head-of-official-science-panel

Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434568/posts

UN abandons climate change deadline...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87479ee2-0600-11df-8c97-00144feabdc0.html

Chief admits mistake on Himalayas warning...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6994774.ece

James Cameron: ‘I Believe In Eco-Terrorism’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430694/posts

ClimateGate’s Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431012/posts

THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431016/posts
“Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 magazine article.”

IPCC Pondering New Steps in Wake of Hacked E-mails Episode
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430998/posts

PAPER: World Misled over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

Computer accused of ‘warm bias’ by BBC weatherman...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243846/Met-Office-accused-warm-bias-BBC-weatherman.html

ClimateGate’s Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431012/posts

THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431016/posts

IPCC Pondering New Steps in Wake of Hacked E-mails Episode
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430998/posts

PAPER: World Misled over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

Computer accused of ‘warm bias’ by BBC weatherman...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243846/Met-Office-accused-warm-bias-BBC-weatherman.html

Danny Glover:Haitian earthquake was caused by climate change and global warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429022/posts

BIN LADEN’S ‘GLOBAL WARMING’ RANT [FR link]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439926/posts

EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study [previous Infowar Headline]

DRILL BABY DRILL! [REAL stimulus.]

[Scotswife]

wors = words.
need more coffee.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for reminding me. Yes, Sarah Palin: “Drill baby drill!”

I’ll add your reminder to the link blast. FRegards ....

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I hope those signs pop up all over the country. That’s hilarious. I need a bumper sticker!!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I admit it. I miss the old hispanderer, warts and all. At least we could pressure him into good judge appointments. At least he had made govt. revenue grow. And he resisted global warming.

[MikeGranby]

The real question I have about the IPCC report is why it took so long for all this come out? The report has been around for how long? And yet no journalist even bothered to check this stuff? The problems that are being discovered are fairly easy to spot, apparently, and yet the whole report was previously treated as if Moses bought it down on tablets of stone. The media really ought to ask themselves why they didn’t bother to read the document on which such huge changes to our lives were being predicated. Except, of course, they already know the answer to that one.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Frightening, isn’t it? Don’t tell me God isn’t playing some role in the history of humanity. He keeps giving us little checks as if to say, “You make your own decisions. But hold on, look at this, are you sure you don’t want to take some action here?”

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Blizzard Rearranges Announcement of Feds New Global Warming Office...

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/08/noaa-blizzard-rearranges-climate-change-announcement

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Obama better take a hint, or God might get cranky. Quix, please note the post above. Remember how Copenhagen suffered a blizzard? God is telling us something. FRegards ....

[And by the way, Obama might want to reconsider thinking of us as ‘clinging to our guns and religion’.]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I should have thought of you for post 17, 18, and 19. God bless you. God is in control!