Climate change chief says sorry for hot air claim over melting glaciers | Mail Online

Dr Benny Peiser, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: 'The time has come to completely overhaul the structure and workings of the IPCC.

'Until it accepts to undergo a root and branch reform, it will continue to haemorrhage credibility.'

EU Referendum: Changing the climate

Pace The Daily Mail this morning, Dr R K Pachauri now seems to have acquired the permanent tag of "controversial", which hangs over him like the proverbial albatross. The description of "lobbyist" can't help either.

Another tag now firmly lodged is "former railway engineer", as in The Daily Express, which carries somewhat less of a cachet than "world's leading climate scientist".

Meanwhile, we are awaiting the outcome of the press conference Pachauri promised reporters yesterday. Despite the time difference, there are no reports as yet, which makes one wonder whether the promise was yet another bit of Pachauri bluster.

Either way, the "climate" is definitely changing, and it isn't the one Pachauri is making money out of.

Climate Science Panel Apologizes for Himalayan Error - NYTimes.com

Jeffrey Kargel, an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona who helped expose the IPCC's errors, said the botched projections were "extremely embarrassing and damaging."
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"Some errors can always get through the cracks," [Lonnie Thompson] said. "These issues are very specific, and they do not detract from the overall findings of the IPCC. There's a tremendous amount of data and evidence out there [like what, specifically?] that points to human impact on our climate system."
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"The IPCC are all overloaded and this one just got by them," Piltz said.

IEEE Spectrum: Three Cultures of Climate Science

Though it's not crystal clear what's driving what, this much is well established [is it?]: greenhouse gas levels today are far higher than they're ever been in the last million years, and the difference between pre-industrial and today's levels is greater than the difference was between glacial and interglacial levels.