Help audit the IPCC AR4 – Group project
Over the past couple months, story after story has emerged about shoddy references in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). While the IPCC, and Pachauri in particular, claim the AR4 is based on all peer-review (or the 'vast majority'), this claim is clearly suspect. However, the process which has revealed this claim to be suspicious has been somewhat haphazardly done by various bloggers working independently of each other.
Until now.
How to audit the AR4 references
The Citizen's Audit of the IPCC's AR4 has begun! Read this post for details. Here are some general guidelines that may help you in your auditing, and also some tips on how to further pursue questionable citations if you find any.
This assumes you have already e-mailed Donna (NOconsensus.org AT gmail.com) and then received a Microsoft Word document containing a numbered reference list from a particular chapter of the AR4. If you haven't yet, e-mail her! Read the rest here...
Climate Clod of the week: Lucy Lawless
I haven't done climate clod of the week in a few weeks....oops. However, reader Jack e-mailed me a quote from Lucy Lawless that I have to post.
Posted on the website Mother Nature Network (MNN) is an interview on March 5 of this year with Lucy Lawless. She talks about various things, but then the interviewer asks her this question:
After Climategate and other reports questioning climate change science, many people worldwide are still skeptical about global warming. What would you say to disbelievers to get them to change their minds?
Lucy Lawless answers: Read the rest here...
IPCC reviewers pointed out wildfire mistake, ignored by authors
In a previous post I mentioned that the IPCC's claim of reduced tourism due to wildfires (section 14.2.7 of WGII) didn't match their source. They claimed there were millions of dollars in tourism losses, but their source did not make that claim. One of the reasons the claim was false was explained in their own source, a British Columbia Tourism newsletter. It said:
It is possible that the stronger performance of regions far from the fires is due to travellers who changed their plans to visit these regions instead of those heavily affected by the forest fires.
More DEFRA advocacy for climate change
Back in Feb. I posted about how the UK government Agency Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) had asked the UEA specifically for 'headline' socio-economic indicators linked to climate change, in order to create 'public resonance'. I noticed this emphasis on climate change again recently.
After looking around the documents section of the CRU leak/hack, I noticed a few interesting PDFs. Both were made by (or with) DEFRA. The first is named "Your guide to Communicating Climate Change", and the second is named "Rules of the Game : Evidence base for the Climate Change Communications Strategy" They both are guides for how to communicate the dangers of climate change to others. Let's look at some excerpts, first from 'Your Guide': Read the rest here...
Climate scientists want “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach”
A Washington Times article broke today claiming that they obtained e-mails from several climate scientists at the National Academy of Sciences which contained their idea to hit back at skeptics. An honest, open debate? Release their data? No no, that's archaic thinking. They wanted:
"an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach"
by running an advertisement attacking skeptic's credibility. They lamented:
"Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules,"
Well-funded, merciless enemies? They should read Joanna Nova's article, which shows this 'well-funded' claim is true, but only of the climate scientists themselves.
Read the rest here...
A climate rhyme
Dr. Suess' birthday has inspired me a create a climate rhyme.
'The world is hot, the world is hot!'
I tried to tell them 'no it's not!'
They didn't listen to what I'd said
They just kept saying 'you've lost your head'
'The world is warmer, we know it's true,'
'Explain why we should listen to you?'
I told them 'the science is weak at best'
They responded 'Oh please, just give it a rest!'
'A consensus exists, we know you are wrong!'
'We must act now, we can't wait for long!'
I said 'But look, the world has cooled!'
They said 'Oh no, you've just been fooled,'
'Trust us, please, we wouldn't lie,'
'There's no bias, we'd never try!'
I pointed out 'Your models aren't right!'
They said 'That's no reason for fright,'
'Yes, they aren't perfect, but don't dismay,'
'We promise they'll be better one day'
Then they told me 'the science is settled'
Statements like that just make me nettled!
I stopped our conversation right then,
Why listen to them again and again?
That's when they said 'You've denied the science'
'You and the oil companies have an alliance!'
I realized then I had the upper hand,
This knowledge helped me to make my stand!
I watched their movement fall apart,
Forced to retract chart after chart
Their science in shambles, gone up in smoke,
The public now knows it was all just a joke.
An amazing February at Climate Quotes
This month has been incredible here. Several of my stories have been picked up by bigger bloggers and climate news sites, getting me far more traffic this month than I thought I would get when I started in January. In the month of February, I had just over 60,000 page views, with over 20,000 unique visitors. I've had visitors from over 160 different countries.
The best part has been the bigger bloggers and climate news sites that have linked to me.
Marc Morano's Climate Depot has linked to about a dozen of my articles, which has driven the majority of my traffic.
Climate-Skeptic has linked to me several times.
Anthony Watts' site Watts up with that? linked to two of my articles.
Andrew Bolt's column at the HeraldSun covered two of my stories.
Jeff Id's blog, The Air Vent, also linked to several of my stories.
Tom Nelson's blog has linked to all of my big stories.
Steve McIntyre's blog Climate Audit covered my boot article.
James Delingpole's column in the Telegraph linked to my DEFRA story.
I was linked in an American Thinker article.
Pajama's Media linked to my Barbara Boxer article.
The Planet Gore section of National Review Online also linked to my Barbara Boxer article.
Also I've been linked on IceCap, ClimateChangeFraud, AlGoreLied, HideTheDecline, PiratesCove, TheDevilsKitchen, and dozens of others.
I was tweeted, digged (dug?), posted on delicious, and sent around facebook a bit too.
This is not even close to a comprehensive list, there are 697 incoming links to my site. Incredible.
What else can I say? Thank you for reading!
Open thread; good news
This isn't related to climate change at all, but I am a blogger and I like to share good news.
We brought home our new baby girl today, healthy as can be. Mom is great too. The (little) big sister at home was elated (and tried multiple times to steal her pacifier).
Suffice to say, I may not be posting every single day unless I get some guest posting. You are invited, guest! E-mail me at the about us page. If you want, use this page as an open thread for any subject or links that you think have value.
73's
Barbara Boxer relied heavily on both the IPCC and Pachauri
Yesterday in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Barbara Boxer made the following statement:
In my opening statement, I didn’t quote one international scientist or IPCC report. … We are quoting the American scientific community here.
This is in response to Sen Inhofe's minority report about climategate, blasting the IPCC. Boxer doesn't even attempt to defend the IPCC, she simply says that she used American scientists in her opening statement. This is true, in this particular case, but it certainly hasn't been historically. Boxer has relied on the IPCC several times as the Chair of the EPW, and she has relied on Pachauri as well. Lets start at the beginning.
When the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report was issued in April 2007, Boxer released a statement. From the statement:
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, made the following remarks today regarding today's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) after she received a briefing by telephone from Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC:
"This powerful report confirms the very real dangers that global warming poses for us all. The effects of global warming will be felt throughout the world."