So, when the IPCC Chairman asked me to review
the Synthesis Report I did not bother.
It was a pity that the delegates at Bali didn't discuss this or that the recent IPCC
Synthesis report did not look in more detail at this recent warming standstill.
The full
Synthesis report does mention it four times.
Not exact matches
The skeptics tend to pick out one aspect where there is perhaps not full agreement and fail to recognize that observations as well as models have shortcomings (witness the recent MSU [Microwave Sounding Unit]
report's findings of shortcomings in the observational techniques, etc.)-- and that our best understanding must be based on a coherent integration of the many, many studies into a comprehensive
synthesis — and this is what the IPCC assessments (and others)
do.
Unlike the fourth assessment
report, the IPCC's most recent
synthesis document
did not give a best estimate for climate sensitivity.
CB:
Do you envisage the synthesis report, then, as as an exploration of those solutions, or do you mean the IPCC could make recommendations of its ow
Do you envisage the
synthesis report, then, as as an exploration of those solutions, or
do you mean the IPCC could make recommendations of its ow
do you mean the IPCC could make recommendations of its own?
Oddest of all, however, is the sum of # 30,417 still shown on the Defra website representing money paid to TERI Europe in 2007, via «Cambridge University», in respect of work
done by an unnamed «head of unit» towards preparation of a «
Synthesis Report» summarising the contents of the IPCC» s major Fourth Assessment
Report.
The new UNFCCC
synthesis report finds that all countries have upped their ambition from their pre-2020 climate actions, but there's still more work to
do to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C and prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
Raven: I don't know is anyone has noticed this: Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations, Final
Report,
Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1, July 2008
However, until and unless they
do, the authors of the Copenhagen Congress
Synthesis Report and the author of the Real Climate weblog are erroneously communicating the reality of the how the climate system is actually behaving.
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Synthesis Report
We don't even follow the 30 scientists that reviewed the IPCC
report, to say nothing of the hundreds of scientists who wrote the papers that
report was a
synthesis of.
There were many different representations of uncertainty (e.g., a range in models versus an expert judgment) in the TAR, and the consensus RF bar chart
did not generate a total RF or uncertainties for use in the subsequent IPCC
Synthesis Report (IPCC, 2001b)(Chapters 2 and 7; Section 9.2).
However, this prediction
does not appear in any of the IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers, nor in the
Synthesis Report (which at least partly explains why it went unnoticed for years).