Wow: In the fair-and-balanced Zero Order Draft of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, Michael Mann gets cited 109 times; Lindzen/Baliunas/Soon/Shaviv/Kirby get cited a total of zero times

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Then I decided to see which researchers are cited most. My counting is manual so I hope someone can redo this with an automated counter to get the numbers correct. The low numbers will stand up:

• Lindzen = 0 …….That’s OK as Richard is not into Paleo.
• Baliunas = 0 …….Do they think we have forgotten?
• Soon = 0 …….The IPCC ignores measurements and work confirming Hubert Lamb’s MWP.
• Shariv = 0 …….No need to even mention cosmic rays!
• Kirkby = 0 …….The IPCC scorns hard science. CERN schmern! CO2 rools!
• Loehle = 1 …….Dismissed as a “Low Resolution” study. (Translation “No Dendrochronology”)
• Briffa = 16 …….Trees rool!
• Jones = 19 …….Still a star in spite of some naughtiness.
• Ammann = 52 ……A legend in his own mind.
• Mann = 109 ……The IPCC still loves the Hockey Team! Penn State keep circling the wagons.

The IPCC’s blinkers prevent them from seeing anything but CO2. Pitiful!

The failure to even mention Shariv or Kirkby in the “Paleo” report shows that the IPCC exists in its own “Virtual Reality”.