On the basis of a politically-massaged summary and a stack of press advisories, the media has blasted IPCC talking points around the world.
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Last Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a 36-page document. Called the Summary for Policymakers, it claimed to summarize 14 chapters of new, not-yet-released material.
The IPCC chairman’s 2010 work of fiction and the credibility of the IPCC’s 2013-2014 climate report are now inextricably linked.
I’ve just published a book that argues that Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a disgrace. If we were facing a genuine planetary emergency, someone dramatically different would be leading that organization.
By Willis Eschenbach | Watts Up With That? | September 27, 2013
The unadorned truth was door number one. Cringe-worthy exaggeration was door number two. The IPCC made the wrong call.
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The Financial Post (the business section of Canada’s National Post newspaper) has published a piece by me today, titled 9,000 Nobel Pretenders.
Scientific truth isn’t negotiated in the dead of night behind closed doors.
Since Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been in a meeting. The purpose of that meeting is to take a document authored by scientists and ensure that its wording is palatable to the powers that be.
There are many reasons to distrust the UN’s climate panel. Let’s start with political meddling and authors linked to green lobby groups.
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I have an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today. My concerns about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) aren’t news to regular readers of this blog, but matters are unlikely to improve until this information reaches a wider audience.
A fictional UN climate body exists in the minds of the gullible. And then there’s the real IPCC.
It may not be wise to judge a book by its cover, but it’s entirely appropriate to judge an organization by its leader.
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The Australian news site, MercatorNet, has just published a piece by yours truly titled The UN’s Climate Change Chief Puts Politics First.
