Global Warming Hysteria: Head of IPCC Tells Skeptics To Rub Their Faces with Asbestos » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Oh, the maturity. Oh, the hate. Pachauri is just upset that his own ineptitude helped destroy Al Gore’s “the debate about climate change is over” meme, so that the world is now less likely to allow itself to be governed by UN global warming plutocrats like him. To paraphrase Harry Truman, if you can’t stand the heat of democratic participation, Mr. Pachauri, get out of the kitchen.

Climate change debate no place for silliness, La Trobe University

The famous MIT economist Martin Weitzman has examined the prospects for catastrophic climate change. His estimates are based on 22 simulation models provided by the IPCC and show that if emission control policies are only gradually ramped up remedies that, in two centuries, the probability distributions of temperature outcomes have ‘fat’- tails. In simple terms:

* With probability 0.05 the increase in mean global surface temperatures will be greater than 10 [degrees] C.
* With probability 0.01 the increase in mean global surface temperatures will be greater than 20 [degrees] C.

French fight against climate hype | The Japan Times Online

Sorry to disappoint, but climate skepticism exists beyond the "Anglosphere."

The French Academie des Sciences disputed the "scientific consensus" long before Copenhagen.

Netherlands Enters The Climate Fray - Science News - redOrbit

Vallaart told reporters that the IPCC “should have been clearer” in their findings. The Dutch office for environmental planning had the exact figures. The error has been brought up to the IPCC several times, but nothing has happened as of yet. He was disappointed that proper procedure could not be followed and added that it should not be left to politicians to review IPCC figures.

The Dutch environment ministry plans on reviewing the IPCC’s 938-page Fourth Assessment Report to see if it contains more errors, Vallaart said.