Does the IPCC Follow the Rules? Insiders Say 'No'

According to insiders, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rules are being ignored on the one hand – and circumvented on the other.

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Credit Where It's Due

A news account suggests Michael Oppenheimer is a class act. Rather than calling climate skeptics “deniers” he admits they might be smart people.

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Mr. Chairman, Your Carriage Awaits

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is dysfunctional and unaccountable. That Rajendra Pachauri remains as its chairman – despite widespread calls for his resignation – is proof of this.

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If IPCC Meetings Were Televised

The IPCC documents most likely to be read by outsiders – the Summaries for Policymakers – are not scientific statements at all. Rather, they are the result of a messy, arduous political negotiation that pits scientists against politicians.

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The Sneaky, Not-So-Secret Purpose of the IPCC

According to scientists who’ve helped write its reports, the IPCC is not a scientific body first and foremost. Rather, its primary purpose is to lay the necessary groundwork so that an international climate change treaty can be negotiated. Really.

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All for a Nobel Cause

How often does the media imply that IPCC Peace Prize winners are scientific Nobel laureates?

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Perceptions of Pachauri

What do IPCC insiders really think of chairman Rajendra Pachauri?

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Grey Literature: IPCC Insiders Speak Candidly

IPCC insiders say the use of non-peer-reviewed literature is essential and unavoidable when they write one of the world’s most important reports. Yet chairman Pachauri has, for years, told the world only peer-reviewed material gets used. Why haven’t scientific organizations set the record straight?

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IPCC Nobel Laureates Lack Scientific Credibility

IPCC insiders say many of those who shared in the 2007 Peace Prize lack appropriate scientific credentials. Instead they were chosen because they are of the right gender or come from the right country.

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The Uses and Abuses of a Nobel Prize

A news story tells us we should believe a report because a “Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist” is associated with it. But the Nobel turns out to be the same Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore – and the report’s findings are highly improbable.

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The Sad State of the Debate

How equipped are meteorologists to talk about climate change? Should only climatologists be believed? Why do we spend so much time trying to disqualify people – rather than addressing their ideas?

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Is the IPCC a Scrutiny-Free Zone?

A lead author thinks the IPCC should take a stand by declaring Freedom of Information requests a form of harassment.

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The Silent Treatment

Should AGW proponents acknowledge critics? Or should they avert their eyes and block their ears?

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Is a Meteorologist a Drought Expert?

Why does the media keep interviewing a meteorologist about droughts and floods instead of those with genuine expertise?

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Science Website Publishes WWF Press Releases Verbatim

A website called ScienceCentric.com contains more than 400 “articles” written by the World Wildlife Fund. Activist group press releases are not bona fide science news.

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Flooding in Australia

Australia’s poets have written about alternating droughts and floods since the early 1900s. Has a preoccupation with alleged global-warming-induced-droughts caused authorities in that country to overlook the need for precautionary flood measures?

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IPCC Errors: In the Eye of the Beholder

Opinions regarding how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deals with errors are diverse. They can also be provocative. One IPCC official thinks public scrutiny of its reports should be discouraged.

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New Blog Examines Green History

Haunting the Library, a new blog, digs up news clippings that add important historical context to the climate debate.

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Does Global Warming Look Like Australia?

In early 2009 the Los Angeles Times said hot, dry Australia was a warning to us all – and that things would only get worse. The very next year, dry areas were flooded and snow fell during the summer.

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Greenpeace: Corporate Stocks and Noah's Arks

Greenpeace spends its time trashing corporations. Yet it solicits donations in the form of corporate stocks. Any kind of corporate stocks, apparently.

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If You Don't Believe in Global Warming, the Terrorists Win

A writer fabricates imaginary Osama bin Laden opinions. Then he fabricates imaginary climate skeptic opinions. The fact that they’re identical, he says, proves that skeptics are morally reprehensible “deniers” who should be ignored.

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I took some great photos today and it seems to me that nature is unendingly, searingly beautiful. But it should be respected – rather than romanticized.

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Celebrating Science

A web comic that reminds us what’s powerful, noble, and inspiring about the scientific endeavour.

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