Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Remarkably clueless 2010 claim by Royal Society's Martin Rees: "no-one has questioned anything in part one of the IPCC report"

Martin Rees takes Templeton Prize : Nature News
Controversial 'spirituality' award goes to a scientist for fourth year in a row.
Lord Martin Rees - Interview from Sunday Profile - (ABC)
[March 2010] But to put the IPCC issues in perspective let me say that no-one has questioned anything in part one of the IPCC report which is the one on the climate modelling, the ways in which we calculate the effects of the carbon dioxide concentration.

The concerns have been some errors in volume two, the environmental impacts, in a 1,000 page report.

It's unfortunate and we are engaged in a study to ensure that the fifth IPCC study is done in a still more rigorous way. But I don't think any of these events provide any real motive for diminishing confidence in the overall science.

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