‘This is a pure political process’: Why the UN IPCC Meeting Isn’t Being Televised: ‘Scientific truth isn’t negotiated in the dead of night behind closed doors’

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Reuters: Skeptics pummel Al Gore & IPCC chief Pachauri into ‘faded’ stars: The ‘glamor’ has gone’ – ‘We need new voices’ — ‘Gore has been worn down by criticisms, especially by U.S. Republicans who say his climate campaigns are alarmist and question the science behind them’

Climate Change Stars Fade, Even If Risks Rise

Reuters

September 26, 2013

STOCKHOLM — Compared to the heady days in 2007 when U.S. climate campaigner Al Gore and the U.N.’s panel of climate scientists shared the Nobel Peace Prize, the risks of global warming may be greater but the stars preaching the message have faded.

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Both Gore, the IPCC and Pachauri, now 73, won a series of international awards for their work in 2007. Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Oscar and standing applause at U.N. negotiating sessions when it was shown. But Gore has also been worn down by criticisms, especially by U.S. Republicans who say his climate campaigns are alarmist and question the science behind them. His later ventures have been less high profile. He sold his struggling cable channel, Current TV, to Al Jazeera in January. Gore’s latest book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, has won good reviews.

IPCC leaders including Pachauri have been less outspoken in recent months than before the 2007 report by the IPCC when he said, for instance, that he hoped it would “shock” the world into action.

A 2010 review by scientists in the InterAcademy Council (IAC), partly spurred by an error in the IPCC report that exaggerated a thaw in the Himalayas, said that IPCC leaders should stick to science and not recommend policies. “Straying into advocacy can only hurt IPCC’s credibility,” it said.

Full Reuters article here:

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Analysis: ‘Numerous UN IPCC personnel have ties to environmental groups, many of which raise funds by hyping the alleged dangers of climate change’

By DONNA LAFRAMBOISE in WSJ:

Excerpts:

When IPCC personnel answered a 2010 questionnaire sponsored by the InterAcademy Council (a network of national science academies), there were repeated complaints about unqualified individual members. For example, one individual (the responses to the questionnaire were anonymized) said there are “far too many politically correct appointments” involving people with “insufficient scientific competence to do anything useful.”

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The examples are legion. Donald Wuebbles, one of the two leaders of the introductory first chapter of the Working Group 1 report (a draft of which may be released next Monday)—has been writing awareness-raising climate change reports for the activist Union of Concerned Scientists for a decade. Another chapter of the full IPCC report, “Open Oceans,” is led by Australian marine biologist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, who has written a string of reports with titles such as “Pacific in Peril” for Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Astrophysicist Michael Oppenheimer, in charge of another chapter of the IPCC report, “Emergent Risks and Key Vulnerabilities,” advises the Environmental Defense Fund (after having spent more than two decades on its payroll).

University of Maryland scientist Richard Moss is a former fulltime WWF vice president, while Jennifer Morgan used to be the WWF’s chief climate change spokesperson. Both are currently IPCC review editors—a position that’s supposed to ensure that feedback from IPCC external reviewers is addressed in an even-handed manner.

My own examination of the 2007 IPCC report found that two-thirds of its 44 chapters included at least one individual with ties to the WWF. Some were former or current employees, others were members of a WWF advisory panel whose purpose is to heighten the public’s sense of urgency around climate change.

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IPCC Chairman Pachauri Now Denies Global Warming Slowdown & peer-reviewed research

IPCC Chairman Denies Global Warming Slowdown & peer-reviewed research

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/09/ipcc-chairman-denies-global-warming.html

Daily news roundup from the Global Warming Policy Foundation newsletter [and added commentary]:

IPCC Chairman Denies Global Warming Slowdown

Climate Science Faces Crisis Over Global Warming Pause

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN’s climate panel, dismissed suggestions of a slowdown in global warming. “There’s definitely an increase in our belief that climate change is taking place and that human beings are responsible,” he told me. “I don’t think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase). I would like to draw your attention to the World Meteorological Organization which clearly stated on the basis of observations that the first decade of this century has been the warmest in recorded history. And I think the rest will be brought out by the report itself when it’s released.” –Roger Harrabin, BBC News, 23 September 2013

[IPCC Chief Pachauri is denying the findings of recent peer-reviewed research published in Nature Climate Change finding there has been no statistically-significant warming for the past 20 years.]

Data shows global temperatures aren’t rising the way climate scientists have predicted. Now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces a problem: publicize these findings and encourage skeptics — or hush up the figures. –Axel Bojanowski, Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter, Spiegel Online, 23 September 2013

BBC 10 O’Clock News, 23 September 2013
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research would prefer to leave any discussion of the global warming hiatus entirely out of the new IPCC report summary. The Ministry for the Environment’s identical stance: “Climate fluctuations that don’t last very long are not scientifically relevant.” Germany’s highest-ranking climate researcher, physicist Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in Hamburg, is fighting back against this refusal to face facts. Marotzke, who is also president of the German Climate Consortium and Germany’s top scientific representative in Stockholm, promises, “We will address this subject head-on.” The IPCC, he says, must engage in discussion about the standstill in temperature rise. –Axel Bojanowski, Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter, Spiegel Online, 23 September 2013″Climate policy needs the element of fear,” Ott openly admits. “Otherwise, no politician would take on this topic.” –Axel Bojanowski, Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter, Spiegel Online, 23 September 2013For a quarter of a century now, environmental activists have been issuing predictions in the vein of the Catholic Church, warning people of the coming greenhouse effect …

Spiegel Online: Pachauri to quit as IPCC chairman after his second term ends in 2015

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/09/spiegel-online-pachauri-to-quit-as-ipcc.html

Google TranslateThe global environmental policy, a radical change: After eleven years in office, announces the chairman of the UN’s IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, his exit to. He’ll quit as chairman in 2015, he told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The dispute over the succession is opened.

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UN IPCC Chief Pachauri says new report will ‘reassure’ ‘belief’ in AGW: ‘I don’t think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase)’ — ‘There’s definitely an increase in our belief that climate change is taking place and that human beings are responsible’ — ‘I hope that [the IPCC report] will reassure everyone that human influence is having a major impact on the Earth’s climate’

Pachauri: “I don’t think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase).”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/09/pachauri-don-think-there-is-slowdown-in.html

BBC News – Human role in warming ‘more certain’ – UN climate chief[Pachauri] also dismissed suggestions of a slowdown in global warming.”There’s definitely an increase in our belief that climate change is taking place and that human beings are responsible,” he told me. I would like to draw your attention to the World Meteorological Organization which clearly stated on the basis of observations that the first decade of this century has been the warmest in recorded history….Prof Pachauri’s leadership of the panel has been strongly supported by developing countries, although he has faced criticism in the West. He told me he had no plans to retire after the forthcoming report….I hope that [the report] will reassure [odd word choice, am I right?] everyone that human influence is having a major impact on the Earth’s climate.”Prof Pachauri said he anticipated attempts to discredit the panel. But he claimed evidence of extreme events was persuading more and more people, especially in the US, that humans were taking a risk with the climate.Indeed, the report is expected to say it is very likely that manmade climate change has produced higher precipitation in America.”Hopefully,” he said, “there are enough sane and sensible people in the public who will ultimately prevail.”

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Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: The IPCC’s ‘inconvenient truth’ — ‘The IPCC was seriously tarnished by the unauthorized release of emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009, known as Climategate’

These emails revealed the ‘sausage making’ involved in the IPCC’s consensus building process, including denial of data access to individuals who wanted to audit their data processing and scientific results, interference in the peer review process to minimize the influence of skeptical criticisms, and manipulation of the media. Climategate was quickly followed by the identification of an egregious error involving the melting of Himalayan glaciers. These revelations were made much worse by the actual response of the IPCC to these issues. Then came the concerns about the behavior of the IPCC’s Director, Rachendra Pachauri, and investigations of the infiltration of green advocacy groups into the IPCC. All of this was occurring against a background of explicit advocacy and activism by IPCC leaders related to CO2 mitigation policies.…

UK Paper: UN scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years ‘amid fears it would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change’

Germany called for the references to the slowdown in warming to be deleted, saying looking at a time span of just 10 or 15 years was ‘misleading’ and they should focus on decades or centuries.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has changed its tune after issuing stern warnings about climate change for years

Hungary worried the report would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change.

Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for statistics, as it was exceptionally warm and makes the graph look flat – and suggested using 1999 or 2000 instead to give a more upward-pointing curve.

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The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the ‘leading hypothesis’ among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean – which has got hotter.

UN IPCC chairman dismisses climate report spoiler campaign: Rajendra Pachauri says ‘rational people’ will be convinced by the science of the forthcoming blockbuster UN climate report

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Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 2): ‘Why has Yale University promulgated the fiction that the chairman of the IPCC is a Nobel laureate?’

Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 2)

http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2013/09/rajendra-pachauri-fake-nobel-laureate_15.html

Why has Yale University promulgated the fiction that the chairman of the IPCC is a Nobel laureate?…

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