House of Cards Coming Crashing Down!
The doo-doo is really hitting the fan now!
If you think one little false-fact about glaciers (that was not from a peer-reviewed source) is troublesome, you'd better hold onto your hats. The IPCC (and perhaps thereby the AGW scam) is going to find it hard to continue to prop-up its story when the PLETHORA of non-peer reviewed source items sees more light of day. As always, I encourage you all to keep an eye on
Watts Up With That?
UN IPCC Admission of non-peer-reviewed data!
'Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report's chapter on Asia, said: 'It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action. (snip)
Dr Lal said: 'We knew the WWF report with the 2035 date was 'grey literature' [material not published in a peer-reviewed journal]. But it was never picked up by any of the authors in our working group, nor by any of the more than 500 external reviewers, by the governments to which it was sent, or by the final IPCC review editors.''
This is bombshell material to those of us who actually understand how science is supposed to work. This is an admission that (1) They used unverified information, which was clearly not peer-reviewed per their standards, and tried to pass them off as verified facts, but worse is (2) They admit that they knew it was not peer-reviewed, and most damaging of all (3) They admit using non-peer reviewed material for the purposes of influencing government to do something. And now hearken back to all their noise of the IPCC's work being 'politically-neutral'. (As if ANYONE could ever believe anything fronted by the UN is politicall-neutral!)
But wait…it gets better (worse):
IPCC used non-peer-reviewed World Wildlife Fund opinion papers as "evidence"
'Well it turns out that the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is cited all over the IPCC AR4 report, and as you know, WWF does not produce peer reviewed science, they produce opinion papers in line with their vision. Yet IPCC's rules are such that they are supposed to rely on peer reviewed science only. It appears they've violated that rule dozens of times, all under Pachauri's watch.
A new posting authored by Donna Laframboise, the creator of NOconsensus.org (Toronto, Canada) shows what one can find in just one day of looking.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-dodgy-citations-in-nobel-winning.html
Here's an extensive list of documents created or co-authored by the WWF and cited by this Nobel-winning IPCC AR4 report: (long list of non-peer-reviewed opinion papers)'
But wait…we are not done yet! There is also bogus material in IPCC 2007 report AR4 which purports to blame increasing severe weather events with global warming from a source paper which had not yet completed the referee and publishing process! And what is most damning is that, had they waited until that paper finished the referee process and been published, they would see that the real conclusion about any relationship between severe weather events and man-made global warming was the exact opposite than the one they have been trying to shove down the world's throat:
IPCC used a paper that had not completed referee/publishing process!
'The problem is that the IPCC cited a study on severe weather event frequency that wasn't complete yet. When it was complete in 2008, it came to an entirely different conclusion about linkage to global warming:
The Sunday Times has since found that the scientific paper on which the IPCC based its claim had not been peer reviewed, nor published, at the time the climate body issued its report.
When the paper was eventually published, in 2008, it had a new caveat. It said: 'We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses.'
Despite this change the IPCC did not issue a clarification ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit last month. It has also emerged that at least two scientific reviewers who checked drafts of the IPCC report urged greater caution in proposing a link between climate change and disaster impacts — but were ignored.'
And finally, these bogus claims relate back to the resignation of a hurricane climatologist from the IPCC effort way back in 2005! I would highly recommend you read his letter in its entirety, because in his resignation he was warning us to the politicization of science that was going on at the IPCC in its run-up to its 2007 publishing of its AR4 report:
Chris Landsea's resignation letter from UN IPCC
I find it hard to believe that even the staunchest supporter of AGW who works in the science or engineering community can possibly still believe this BS. That the science has been highly politicized, and therefore polluted, can hardly be denied anymore. It is time for a complete purge and do-over, and I REALLY hope that the faux-scientists at NASA are shaking in their shoes this morning! Well, they may not be shaking in their shoes, but they are already actively trying to re-write their own (bad) scientific history… and not calling note to these changes. Take a look at this find by Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.:
NASA changing data without telling anyone?
'The figure immediately below shows Table 5.2 as it was originally published in the Stern Review (from a web archive in PDF), and I have circled in red the order-of-magnitude error in hurricane damage that I document in my paper (the values should instead by 10 times less). (snip graphic)
Now, have a look at the figure below which shows Table 5.2 from the Stern Review Report as it now appears on the UK government archive (PDF), look carefully at the numbers circled in red: (snip another graphic)
There is no note, no acknowledgment, nothing indicating that the estimated damage for hurricanes was modified after publication by an order of magnitude. The report was quietly changed to make the error go away. Of course, even with the Table corrected, now the Stern Review math does not add up, as the total GDP impact from USA, UK and Europe does not come anywhere close to the 1% global total for developed country impacts (based on Muir-Wood), much less the higher values suggested as possible in the report's text, underscoring a key point of my 2007 paper.'
NASA's climate monger and chief AGW Pharisee, James Hansen, seems to wish to simply crawl away unnoticed. I say we don't let him get away with that!
RMT