UN Employees as IPCC Authors
The IPCC's Chapter 7 was not written by neutral, dispassionate scholars. Three UN employees are among its authors.
The IPCC's Chapter 7 was not written by neutral, dispassionate scholars. Three UN employees are among its authors.
As a journal guest editor, IPCC lead author Andrew Challinor approved the publication of 9 research papers that are now being cited as evidence in his IPCC chapter.
A research paper doesn't talk about increased crop damage by insects. But as occurred in the Himalayan glacier incident, the erroneous claim remains in the about-to-be released report.
The upcoming Working Group 2 report wasn't thoroughly scrutinized by hundreds of external reviewers. Those people saw only early versions of the report. Unpublished research findings were still being incorporated months later.
At the United Nations, science doesn't speak for itself. It's hammered out during secret, all-nighter negotiating sessions.
The UN's climate panel claims to be a 'scientific body.' But it's actually in the business of writing reports that rely on thousands of judgment calls. It's time to stop pretending that fallible human judgment is 'science.'
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | March 5, 2014
Nic Lewis and Marcel Crok have published a new report on climate sensitivity.
Hard-hitting IPCC journalism - some reasons to cast your vote for this blog.
Watts Up With That? | March 1, 2014
From http://1.usa.gov/1mRYomm (PDF) I have converted the text for presentation here with Dr. Pielke’s response.
Dr. Roger Pielke responds:
A fake Nobel keynote speaker played an embarrassingly minor role in the IPCC.