Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Reference Frame: IPCC: apology for glaciers, is that enough?
I am not satisfied with the statement, I agree with the Indian newspapers etc. that the IPCC leadership responsible for this scandal should be removed, and I think we should be looking for ways to guarantee that this (resignation) is what will happen and the scandal is what will not happen again.
A Durable Yet Vulnerable Eden in Amazonia - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Daniel Nepstad, an Amazon specialist at the Woods Hole Research Center, said the seeming durability of the ecosystem was no reason to relax about global warming.

“Even if an area remains wet doesn’t mean that it will be protected from the other aspects of climate change: rising and far more erratic air temperatures, higher rates of evaporation (evapotranspiration), and the rising concentration of CO2,” he said in an e-mail message. “It is misleading to imply that there are any ecosystems in the world that will not suffer profound change, and for many that change has already begun.”
IPCC admits error on Himalayan glacier melt fiasco « Watts Up With That?
But…there’s that word again, “robust” used in the context of error admission.
But when will the IPCC apologise for Pachauri? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The fact that this mad claim got into the IPCC report in the first place, almost cut and pasted from a report by the WWF green group (no peer review demanded from the IPCC this time), already says plenty.
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But let’s now hear from the IPCC an explanation for Pachauri’s initial refusal to even contemplate that this inherently ridiculous claim was wrong. That, I think, is the most telling part of this farce.

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