The lack of substance in the ludicrous claim was brought to the attention of the powers that be by
IPCC reviewers, before it was mendaciously included in the report.
Over at Prometheus, Roger Pielke Jr makes a good point about how the actual views of
IPCC reviewers often don't make it into the papers.
If the scientific case for greenhouse warming crumbles, so be it; but I'd suggest we should beware of assuming it is crumbling simply because a few scientists or a few scientific papers or a few
IPCC reviewers have been seen to fall short of the highest standards.
IPCC reviewers objecting to this practice are often dismissed out of hand without any material discussion of the research.
A closed circle of EPA and
IPCC reviewers — accompanied by a massive taxpayer - funded public relations and propaganda campaign — must no longer be allowed to rubberstamp junk science that is used to justify federal diktats.
What's bizarre is that an examination of the comments submitted by
IPCC reviewers following both the first and second draft of Chapter 5 — and the responses to them — suggests that those involved appear to have taken part in a shared hallucination.
«IPCC is unsound» UN
IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports since its inception going back to 1990, had a clear message to UN participants.
As one example of this, climate scientist and accredited
IPCC reviewer Nic Lewis noted that if 2001, 2002, or 2003 were used as a starting point, data suggests that the planet has actually been cooling by a relatively insignificant 0.02 C to 0.05 C per decade.
Actually, the Monck is an official
IPCC reviewer and had pointed out factors which resulted in substantial changes in the AR4 supplement earlier this year (a large reduction in sea level predictions).
He subsequently served as a U.S. delegate to the IPCC and
an IPCC reviewer.
I've published relevant articles in peer reviewed literature, acted as
an IPCC reviewer, been cited in IPCC AR4, been invited to present to a NAS panel — my use of data is «academic» by any legal standard.
Salby was once
an IPCC reviewer, and comments, damningly, that if these results had been available in 2007, «the IPCC could not have drawn the conclusion that it did.»
MattB — I note from above that Prof Salby was once
an IPCC reviewer.
IPCC reviewer comments and author responses may be accessed here.
When Macquarie University hired Salby's CV included - «Salby was once
an IPCC reviewer» - «He's been a visiting professorships at Paris, Stockholm, Jerusalem, and Kyoto, and he's spent time at the Bureau of Meterology in Australia.»
IPCC reviewer and climate researcher and chemist Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand is an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990 and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of «Climate Change 2001.
He maintains that he is a Nobel peace laureate (4), on the grounds that he is an «
IPCC reviewer» (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the peace prize with Al Gore in 2007).
IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr Vincent Gray, of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990, author of more than 100 scientific publications and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of «Climate Change 2001,» declared «The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense» in an April 10, 2007 article.
David Saltz,
an IPCC reviewer, spotted the first two errors before publication (as discussed below), but they were not corrected.
The third Greenpeace representative given official standing as
an IPCC reviewer is Sven Teske.
I registered as
an IPCC reviewer and sent in the following few comments on the SPM in time for the Nov 30 deadline.
Yes, anyone can join in formally as
an IPCC reviewer — if they sign on the dotted line — but that currently commits the signer to observe some degree of confidentiality, at least in the early stages of the process.
Not exact matches
Elizabeth Malone • Contributing Author, Working Group II, «Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability,»
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Review Editor, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,»
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Expert
Reviewer, multiple chapters,
IPCC Fourth and Third Assessment Reports (2001 and 2007).
James J. Dooley • Expert
Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,»
IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,»
IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,»
IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,»
IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert
Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
PNNL's climate experts have served as convening lead authors, lead authors, review editors and expert
reviewers on
IPCC reports.
Since then, numerous IIASA scientists have been authors and
reviewers of the
IPCC's reports.
Professor Peter Wadhams, member of AMEG, expert on Arctic sea ice and a
reviewer for the
IPCC AR5 report, says that the PIOMAS data is based on actual thickness measurements.
All the signers of the letter listed themselves as Expert
Reviewers or Contributing Authors of the
IPCC Report.
Although that sounds like a serious questioning of the results, it turns out that an Expert
Reviewer is anyone who just asked for a copy of the draft report and a Contributing Author could be anyone who sent the
IPCC some information (newspaper clipping or a personal opinion for example).
«Even more troubling,» Dr. Pielke said, was the fact that one of
IPCC's
reviewers asked the
IPCC to check with him (Pielke) about this information.
Keith Kloor has found a paying gig as a Lomborg imitator, you know, the guy who starts every attack on environmentalists with the affirmation that he used to be an expert
reviewer for the
IPCC, a member of Greenpeace, a former editor of some the Audobon Society magazine or a lifelong Democrat.
In one ICECAP article (PDF), Gray touts his position as an «expert
reviewer» of the
IPCC.
She's a respected climatologist and director of Texas Tech University's Climate Science Center, and she served as an expert
reviewer for the
IPCC's previous report, in 2007.
You do realize that anyone who wanted to could sign up to be a
reviewer of the
IPCC SOD and get an advanced look?
IPCC Declares Its Intent to Circumvent Expert
Reviewers — Dec. 2012 Hundreds of souls have volunteered to serve as IPCC expert r
Reviewers — Dec. 2012 Hundreds of souls have volunteered to serve as
IPCC expert
reviewersreviewers.
A 2010 report concluded that this debacle could have been avoided entirely had the
IPCC merely listened to its own
reviewers.
The
IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007, involved more than 500 Lead Authors and 2000 Expert
Reviewers from more than one hundred participating nations.
The final product achieved the result of deception in full daylight because as David Wojick,
IPCC expert
reviewer, explained,
The vaunted
IPCC process — multitudes of experts from over a hundred countries over a period of four years, examining thousands of refereed journal publications, with hundreds of expert
reviewers — elevated the authority of the
IPCC AR4 to near biblical heights.
Gray often introduces himself as an
IPCC expert
reviewer.
Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia served as an Expert
Reviewer to Working Group I of the Fourth Assessment Report of the
IPCC [1].
In the development of AR4,
IPCC reported the Zeebe & Wolf - Gladrow results, but when a
reviewer / contributor criticized the results,
IPCC deleted and concealed references to the equivalence between RF and solubility.
He is now a lead author for the upcoming
IPCC report... Marika Holland, another editor at the Journal of Climate, contributed to two chapters of the 2007 climate bible... Editor Andrew Pitman was an
IPCC lead author, a contributing author, and an expert
reviewer for the 2007 edition.
In 2002, Vincent Gray, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (
IPCC)
reviewer wrote that
But let's take a look at its
IPCC connections... It's chief editor, Anthony J. Broccoli, was a contributing author and expert
reviewer for the
IPCC's 2007 report... Nathan Gillett, one of its editors, served in four separate AR4 capacities — as a lead author, an expert
reviewer for both Working Group 1 and Working Group 2, and as an expert
reviewer of the Synthesis Report.
Moreover, he's involved in the upcoming report as a review editor... As editor James Renwick's bio page makes clear, he was a contributing author to the 2001
IPCC report, a lead author for the 2007 report, and is currently a lead author for AR5... editor Brian Soden was a 2007 contributing author and an expert
reviewer who is currently serving as an AR5 lead author... Editor Shang - Ping Xie is currently an AR5 lead author, and editor Michael Alexander was a 2007
IPCC expert
reviewer.»
Pielke, for example, is concerned about the way authors and peer
reviewers work, how they are appointed by the
IPCC and how literature is used that, as in the case of the Himalayan glacier, does not come from peer - reviewed professional journals.
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, an expert
reviewer for the
IPCC's imminent Fifth Assessment Report, who found the errors in Cook's data, said: «It may be that more than 0.3 % of climate scientists think Man caused at least half the warming since 1950.
David Wojick, an
IPCC expert
reviewer, explained:
People who actually are involved in the controversy [Steve M., Holland, Willis E., etc on one side, Jones, Mann, Briffa, etc, on the other] Involvement might be because of FOI requests or involvement as an
IPCC FAR chapter
reviewer.