IPCC Technical Assessment Report 5 – Thesis 3
Thesis: The presentation of sea ice in TAR4 used only a sub-set of the data. It should use a wider range of data with reference both to data which were available at the time of TAR4, and data which have become available since. The technical summary presents the following set of graphs: The way the graphs are presented is reminiscent of graphs of return on investment of rivals presented by some
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IPCC Technical Assessment Report 5 – Thesis 2
Thesis: That the discussion of sea level rise in IPCC TAR4 has much to recommend as a model for other topics.Those of you who have already seen our first thesis, on global temperatures, may have got the impression that we were out to ‘get’ the IPCC. This is not the case. We are self-financed and have no agenda. As we say on our Home Page: “We are trying to prove only one thing: rational debate
IPCC Technical Assessment Report 5 – Thesis 1
Thesis: That the IPCC TAR4 distorted and minimised the importance of natural changes to global temperature.This is the first of a series of contributions to the IPCC’s next Technical Assessment Report. They take the IPCC Technical Assessment Report (TAR4) of 2007 as a starting point. We, of course, have no way of knowing if these contributions will be accepted.As this is the first of these contributions
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IPCC Technical Assessment Report 5 – Introduction
At the start of 2010 the IPCC attracted a lot of criticism for three projected climate change impacts which were poorly supported. These were that Himalayan glaciers might disappear by 2035, that African agricultural yields could fall by 50% and that 40% of the Amazonian rain-forest could react drastically to changes in precipitation. In each case the source of the claim was speculative and lacking
Michael Mann and Lee Kump: Dire Predictions – Understanding Global Warming
Thu, Mar 25 2010 02:00
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The Reader’s Digest magazine used to publish what they referred to as “unexpurgated abridgements.” By this they meant that they had left in the exiting bits and cut out the boring bits. This book could be considered an “unexpurgated abridgement” of the IPCC 2004 Technical Assessment Report. A lot of the detailed science has been left out but the elevated temperatures and other symptoms associated
Archer and Rahmstorf: The Climate Crisis - An introductory guide to climate change
Sat, Mar 6 2010 01:04
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“I feel that it is important to not let bad, politically motivated science stand unchallenged.“ This is a quote we could all agree with and is part of the motivation behind our site. Only too often both ‘deniers’ and ‘warmists’ select a sub-set of the available science and then push it beyond reasonable limits to further their cause. Our mission is to sort out the justifiable from the
Sceptics Now Welcome
Over the last few months there has been a remarkable change of tone among the climate science community. Until recently sceptics were treated as barely worth the consideration of ‘real’ climate scientists. The CRU emails showed clearly how attempts were made to prevent the publication of any paper questioning climate orthodoxy or, should such a paper have been published, to prevent it appearing