The scandal deepens – IPCC AR4 riddled with non peer reviewed WWF papers « Watts Up With That?

All the years I’ve been in TV news, I’ve observed that every story has a tipping point. In news, we know when it has reached that point when we say it “has legs” and the story takes on a life of it’s own. The story may have been ignored or glossed over for weeks, months, or years until some new piece of information is posted and starts to galvanize people. The IPCC glacier melt scandal was the one that galvanized the collective voice that has been saying that the IPCC report was seriously flawed and represented a political rather than scientific view. Now people are seriously looking at AR4 with a critical eye and finding things everywhere.
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Well it turns out that the WWF is cited all over the IPCC AR4 report, and as you know, WWF does not produce peer reviewed science, they produce opinion papers in line with their vision. Yet IPCC’s rules are such that they are supposed to rely on peer reviewed science only. It appears they’ve violated that rule dozens of times, all under Pachauri’s watch.

A new posting authored by Donna Laframboise, the creator of NOconsensus.org (Toronto, Canada) shows what one can find in just one day of looking.

EU Referendum: Not one, but two ... and counting

However, Donna Laframboise, a Canadian blogger in Toronto has picked up "dozens" of instances where WWF reports have been cited as the sole authority for contentious claims, including one about coastal developments in Latin America.

She lists them all on her site, making Dr Pachauri's confident assertion look just a tad thin. How many "mistakes" will there have to be before Dr Pachauri resigns?

Carbon [swindle] reporting software market poised for "explosive growth" - 25 Jan 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Report predicts seven-fold expansion in two years for emerging carbon accounting software category

Earth Hour: Join the World in Total [Stupidity] to Fight Climate Change! « Greenfudge.org

At least 250 cities have already signed up for the event this year. Last year’s Earth Hour included international landmarks, such as the Las Vegas Strip, Sydney’s Opera House, and London’s Big Ben and Houses of Parliament going pitch black for the event.

The campaign started in 2007 when over 2 million Sydney residents switched off lights in their homes, offices and businesses for 1 hour as a means to show the relation between electricity consumption and carbon pollution. Last year, the event expanded to nearly 4,000 cities worldwide.

New South Wales: Lord Christopher Monckton

Deborah Cameron was recently joined by Lord Christopher Monckton for an interview in the 702 studios. Lord Monckton is an outspoken climate change sceptic and a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher. The conversation covered his credentials on the subject of climate change and why he thinks scientists are "making it up".
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