Mysterious IPCC Expertise
The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors - but says nothing about their scientific expertise.
The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors - but says nothing about their scientific expertise.
The latest IPCC report was a setup - a cynical ploy to produce alarmist media headlines that succeeded beautifully.
November 2000 and December 2009 were both supposed to be our last, best chance to save the planet from climate disaster. This week, the media is once again spreading this message.
If climate research is like other research, half of the IPCC's 6,000 academic citations are dubious.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is essentially a law unto itself, an entrenched culture with no meaningful oversight mechanisms.
The BBC is a huge bureaucracy. The geniuses running it have declared another bureaucracy - the UN's IPCC - a font of scientific truth. How pathetic.
Scientific debate can't accomplish its purpose if we pretend there is no debate.
IPCC scientists routinely evaluate their own work. What could possibly go wrong?
History's most momentous climate decision was based on research so preliminary it wasn't published in a scientific journal until seven months later.