IPCC

Scientists score lower than chimpanzees when quizzed about basic, state-of-the-world facts.

Scores of scientific minds. So much tomfoolery. 

No matter how undemocratic, impoverished, sparsely-populated, or terrorism-promoting a nation might be, a sentence written by scientists will not survive if that nation objects.

Atmospheric CO2 is currently well above 400 ppm (horizontal dotted line; right scale). This chart, going back to the Cambrian Period, shows how unusual the current situation is. The last time CO2 was greater than 400 ppm was when the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia from the south (note the rise and fall in CO2 around 50 million years ago).

On what planet is it OK for politically-determined definitions to supersede those written by actual scientists?

by Nic Lewis
A close reading of Chapters 1 and 2 of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) reveals some interesting changes from the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5), and other science-relevant statements. This article highlights statements in SR15 relating to carbon emission budgets for meeting the 1.5°C and 2°C targets.

The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors – but says nothing about their scientific expertise By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | October 17, 2018 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims to be a scientific organization. But it’s really a political one. An obvious tell is how it describes […]

The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors - but says nothing about their scientific expertise.

By F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook – 16.10.2018 The recent UN global warming conference under auspices of the deceptively-named International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded its meeting in South Korea discussing how to drastically limit global temperature rise. Mainstream media is predictably retailing various panic scenarios “predicting” catastrophic climate change because of […]

by Gaius PubliusI'm just delving into the new IPCC special report on the effects of limiting, or not limiting, global warming of 1.5°C (full report here), and there are a number of bottom lines coming out of it, including this one, which we reported earlier: "IPCC Manipulating Climate Report Summary to Favor