Climate panel slammed for embracing controversial `grey literature`

From now on, for instance, any grey literature used in an IPCC report will have to be put online so that reviewers can assess its quality.

Krug told New Scientist this would correct an imbalance in the assessments as it is harder for people in developing countries to get research findings into the major peer-reviewed journals.

“There is a lot of information available in [the grey literature of] developing countries that would balance IPCC literature,” she said.

The IPCC’s ‘Politically Correct’ Science » Climate Resistance

The IPCC gets the criticism it deserves. If it can’t cope with the problem of grey literature, and will be including more of it, as Pearce suggests may be the case, maybe it should just admit to being political, not a scientific organisation.

...So it doesn’t matter if total waffle is produced by unheard of academics, on the instruction of Western NGOs and advocacy organisations… The next IPCC report will produce politically correct science, which must surely be nearly as good as ‘truth’. So will this let Greenpeace smuggle its agenda into AR5, on the basis of ‘positive discrimination’? We’ll have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, however, I’m wondering if any critics of environmentalism from universities in developing economies will be allowed to the party. I think the thought experiment is revealing enough… It didn’t happen here. This must be what is meant by ‘grey literature’ — it is to be produced by black people, but according to a distinctly white agenda, dictated by wealthy green NGOs.

FOCUS Cover Story: Renewable Energy Threatens To “Ruin” Germany…”A Tsunami Of Costs”

While Ivy league pundits sit comfortably in their intellectually sanitized world of academia and discuss the possible virtues and boldness of Germany’s fast-track energy transition to renewable energy (80% less CO2 by 2050), Germany’s media, business and political leaders are now sounding the alarms for disaster.

Green Weenie of the Week: The UN | Power Line

Well yes, it goes without saying that the UN deserves the coveted Power Line Green Weenie Award every week, but this week stands out for the simple reason that the Rio+20 “Earth Summit” is commencing down in Brazil.  The original Earth Summit in 1992 gave us the Kyoto Protocol (how’s that workin’ out for ya, greenies?), a parallel diplomatic process on biodiversity, and a crazy-quilt, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink, phonebook-sized wish list known as “Agenda 21” that had no legal force but which was the perfect expression of environmental neurosis and a source of endless mischief.  Back then, if your recall is good, environmentalists demanded that President Bush attend and submit to this regime, which he dutifully did.  As we noted here previously, President Obama is not turning up for this green reunion, and you can hear the crickets chirping among environmental groups.  (Oh sure, they put up an online petition you could sign asking The One to attend.  Wow.)