Drip. Drip. Drip. Another day, another blow to the credibility of the IPCC Nobel Peace Prize-winning report. This time, a claim that global warming would soon lead to a terrible reduction in corn production in north Africa turns out to have been as specious as the Himalayan glacier melt by 2035 nonsense. From the story:
A leading British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility. Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming. The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim.
All of these hyped claims are badly undermining the IPCC’s credibility:
The African claims could be even more embarrassing for the IPCC because they appear not only in its report on climate change impacts but, unlike the glaciers claim, are also repeated in its Synthesis Report. This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers. Its lead authors include Pachauri himself. In it he wrote: “By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised.” The same claims have since been cited in speeches to world leaders by Pachauri and [UN General Secretary] Ban.
Heads should roll (figuratively), starting with the startlingly immature Pashauri–who, as I mentioned in an earlier post, urged warming skeptics to rub their faces with asbestos for daring to doubt global warming hysteria. (Ouch! That hurts.)
February 6th, 2010 | 6:55 pm
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February 6th, 2010 | 7:43 pm
They have credibility left to lose??
February 6th, 2010 | 7:57 pm
As a somewhat recent student of “Analytical Statistics” my sense of logic was EXTREMELY challenged by the formulation process of taking just three of four samples and dividing, cross-sectioning, multiplying based on a ’standard subset bell-curve’, re-dividing, and ‘evaluating against other similar available data’ in order to come up with a “conclusion” that disproves the negative hypothesis, in order to ’support’ the original theory on behalf of the general population… ? WHAT?!! How can a ’sample’ of THREE be configured to represent the ENTIRE POPULATION?!!
That may be “fun” for a bunch of “Math Nerds” to discuss theories and probabilities, and string theory and other such mental challenges, but it is NOT the sort of thing the ENTIRE WORLD should base policies on and the expenditure of BILLIONS of DOLLARS, Euros, Rubles, Yen, and whatever other monetary sources!!
THIS is the ’science’ that Al Gore, and others, say is “fixed” and unarguable…
(And is worth MILLIONS of dollars in their OWN POCKETS!)
Floyd Burdett
February 7th, 2010 | 1:04 am
Darn it, Wesley! There you go again, ignoring what SCIENTISTS have to say! Why don’t you quote an actual SCIENTIST? Here, I’ll SPELL it for you: S…C…I…
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“A leading British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility. Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.”
Oh.
Never mind.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:09 am
They should give back the Nobel and dissolve the organization. The damage is just too great Not that I am, denier that I am, necessarily in favor of this. However, if the IPCC stays around we might not be able formulate the proper response to the 20 or 30 years of global cooling we’ve got coming our way in view of the latest science. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about cranking up the coal fired plants so we can blunt the cooling.
February 7th, 2010 | 11:48 am
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February 7th, 2010 | 4:15 pm
It’s interesting that these huge snowstorms this year are centering around Washington D.C. so that Obama and the rest of those marmalukes have to look out the window and see it…
February 7th, 2010 | 4:59 pm
I love the deniers – all rhetoric and emotion – and no data. No wonder people still exist who think the bible is factually true.
There is, obviously, an astounding amount of scientific ignorance on this blog – what else do you expect from people who get their science from the drudgereport.
That’s where I come in.
The IPCC is not peer-reviewed, ignore it.
Further, I hope folks are aware that things could very likely cool, or stay steady, over the next decade or so. This does not mean global warming has ceased, reversed, or is not real.
I recommend this:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/453043a.html
February 7th, 2010 | 10:32 pm
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