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Recommendations are for managerial reform, not on climate science and assessment reports
The Amsterdam-based InterAcademy Council (IAC), a global organization of the world’s science academies, released a comprehensive report yesterday reviewing the processes and procedures of the embattled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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In the wake of revelations that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) allowed faulty data into its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report about the rate of melt for the Himalayan Glaciers, the United Nations has announced it will commission an independent panel to review the IPCC’s operations and recommend any needed changes.
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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson held firm against lead climate pseudo-skeptic James Inhofe and his colleagues on Tuesday at an EPA budget hearing with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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In the aftermath of the incident surrounding erroneous statements in part of the Fourth Assessment Report released in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claiming that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, pressure has been mounting for IPCC chief, Dr. Rejandra Pachauri, to step down.
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My headline oversimplifies the situation of course, but reflects the news that a statement buried deep inside the 938-page Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report is both incorrect and based on a non-peer reviewed source (pdf). To wit:
Continue Reading Good News for Himalayan Glaciers – Bad News for the IPCC
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At a press conference saturday afternoon, IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri made clear the “robustness” of the organization’s process, reiterating the findings of it’s Fourth Assessment Report, namely that warming is “unequivocal” and “very likely” caused by human activity – beyond naturally occurring climate variation which are also ongoing and was acknowledged at the briefing . Pachauri said the process has stood the “test of time,” and when pressed with the inevitable question about the hacked East Anglia emails, Pachauri said that, while perhaps some (unnamed) countries may have attempted to “seize” upon then to “exaggerate” their significance, the episode has has no significant impact on the negotiating process at COP15.
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Shortly after I arrived on the ground here in Copenhagen, I heard reports from back home that erstwhile vice-presidential candidate and early-retiring Alaska governor Sarah Palin was urging president Barack Obama to “boycott” the COP15 climate talks in the wake of stolen emails from climate scientists and East Anglia University and the apparently heavily-funded and obviously conveniently timed effort to characterize the content of those emails as “proof” that the entire body of climate science is suspect.
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The UN climate change conference opened in Copenhagen today as delegates and world leaders gather this week to try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. GWIR published Tom Schueneman is in Copenhagen to report.
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In the final push to Copenhagen, a two week climate conference got underway on Monday in Bangkok, Thailand. The talks will seek to continue to hammer out details working toward the adoption of a final climate treaty agreement at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen this December.
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The United National Environment Programme has released a compendium of 400 peer-reviewed scientific studies from the last three years that show climate change is quickly outpacing even the projections of the IPCC 2007 assessment reports. The new research indicates a seven degree rise in global temperature may be likely by the end of the 21st century.
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