Let the sunlight in on climate change - opinion - 27 January 2010 - New Scientist

LET'S hear it for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A big round of applause, please. Really. It has done amazing, Herculean work.
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However, the IPCC's heroic days are probably over. The case for anthropogenic climate change has been established; the Nobel prize is won. So it is time for a rethink of where the IPCC is going, and what its future role should be. Two years ago, in the aftermath of the last major assessment report, many scientists argued that the task should have begun then. It is no less urgent now.
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Climate scientists have felt under siege from critics, as leaked emails last year amply demonstrated. But that is no reason to dismiss all criticism as necessarily unwarranted, uninformed or politically motivated.

Some argue that the views of an untutored blogger, or even a scientist from another discipline, should never carry the same weight as those of someone with a lifetime's expertise in a relevant field. But if occasionally the emperors of the lab have no clothes, someone has to say so. The wider review of science made possible by the blogosphere can improve science and foster public confidence in its methods. Scientists should welcome the outside world in to check them out. Their science is useless if no one trusts it.

EU backs climate change report despite [fraud] - USATODAY.com

EU spokeswoman Barbara Helferrich said 27-nation bloc has "full confidence in the findings of the report" and the IPCC's moves to correct mistakes.

San Diego Reader | Global Warming Is Crap!

“Global warming?” says Steve Wampler. “Crap!”

This is unexpected because Steve trained as an environmental engineer at UC Davis.

But he’s serious. “There are 100,000 scientists out there who are saying it’s total crap too, but they get shunned, swept under the carpet because all this ‘global warming’ stuff is just money-making scare tactics. They prevent the opposing view from ever getting a fair hearing.”

The Blackboard » Leake Discusses IPCC ( You Tube)

He expects more problems will come out in WGII reports. He suspects the authors tried to create a ‘too clear and simple a narrative’ for a complex process, and did not scrutinize work as careful as usual in science. Thinks the problem lies in the IPCC process.

The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan.28th 2010