Jan
Mountain ice disappearance claims by IPCC based upon student dissertation and magazine article
See, it's global warming!
First we learn that Greenpeace is the source of quite a few Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “facts,” and now we find out that the climate panel based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine that merely quoted anecdotal evidence from climbers.
The Telegraph reports:
In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.
However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master’s degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.
Nore about the article and dissertation:
But neither the dissertation or the magazine article cited as sources for this information were ever subject to the rigorous scientific review process that research published in scientific journals must undergo.
The magazine article, which was written by Mark Bowen, a climber and author of two books on climate change, appeared in Climbing magazine in 2002. It quoted anecdotal evidence from climbers of retreating glaciers and the loss of ice from climbs since the 1970s.
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The dissertation paper, written by professional mountain guide and climate change campaigner Dario-Andri Schworer while he was studying for a geography degree, quotes observations from interviews with around 80 mountain guides in the Bernina region of the Swiss Alps.
Are we the only ones that find the following quote humorous? Aren’t the warmers always the ones telling us not to use anecdotal evidence as proof against global warming–like the freaking cold winter the world is having?
[Magazine article author] Mr Bowen said: “I am surprised that they have cited an article from a climbing magazine, but there is no reason why anecdotal evidence from climbers should be disregarded as they are spending a great deal of time in places that other people rarely go and so notice the changes.”
So, whats next? High school science projects?
Source: UK Telegraph
Tell me,if all these brain boxes who worked for the UN,IPCC,Met Office,Defra,governmentS,Nasa,Noaa,all the people up close ,etc,etc could not see ,from “close up and intimate” with the scientists and propaganda makers,that something was WRONG,suspicious,untrue ,iffy, a bit dodgy, THEN THEY ALL must have been in in the SCAM and didn’t give a DONALD DUCK.
Obviously the Watermelons and the Activists,were there at the inception,WE HAVE A CUNNING PLAN!
Lets join with “Governments” and scam the earnings of workers to pay for our utopia!.
edd the fed speakes more crap what a total dick
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247459/Ed-Miliband-declares-war-climate-change-sceptics.html
The IPCC has a basic problem that only dissolution can cure. The organization was never set up to look dispassionately at climate change and what causes it. Its pro-AGW bias was built right into its marching orders. This is from the IPCC’s web site home page:
“The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.” –
http://www.ipcc.ch/about/about.htm
So with absolutely no proof that human activity causes climate change, the IPCC went into business making that assumption. Is it any wonder that the organization is open to bogus scientific claims and routinely excludes evidence that casts doubt on AGW?
I predict the IPCC will continue to hang around trying to conduct business as usual before eventually succumbing to ridicule. I trust everyone heard and noted the laughter that greeted Obama when he referenced the settled science of global warming in his State of the Union Address on Jan 27. IPCC, that is your future.
We should put up Milliband’s declaration of war on us. His appeal for the greenwiener’s to “organize” is meant to signal a change from the defensive back to the offensive. Keep in mind that the greenwieners don’t need to organize. They hold all of the official highground in the UN, EU, USA, Canada, etc…, a virtual monoply on main-stream-media reporting, all of the most famous science publications, and millions of followers organized by WWF, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, etc… In response to Milliband I qoute a true British Lion “do your worst and we shall do our best”
Daily Mail:
Overheated facts in a disastrous week for global warming scientists
link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1247210/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Overheated-facts-disastrous-week-global-warming-scientists.html
blog link:
http://itsfaircomment-climategate.blogspot.com/2010/01/overheated-facts-in-disastrous-week-for.html
Note to the Editor…
A must read:
Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative
Prof Stott, (The Clamour of The Times)
link:
http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2010/1/30_Global_Warming%3A_the_Collapse_of_a_Grand_Narrative.html
blog link:
http://itsfaircomment-climategate.blogspot.com/2010/01/global-warming-collapse-of-grand.html
French backed “carbon tariffs” are a little reported story here in the USA. Has there been a new push for these since COP15? We can use a good dose of nationalism to encourage some political support. To date the UK press is standing head-and-shoulders above the US press on climategate.
climate censorship of the EUdssR?!!…
since yesterday down:
http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/