Nature: "The odds of reaching [a climate hoax] agreement will be better in 2015 than they were in Copenhagen"

The final assessment : Nature News & Comment

it is time to rethink the IPCC. The organization deserves thanks and respect from all who care about the principle of evidence-based policy-making, but the current report should be its last mega-assessment.
...The IPCC process remains a human endeavour and, as such, is subject to human error; the silly mistake in the previous report that Himalayan glaciers would melt completely by 2035 demonstrates this. But the rarity of such errors shows what a solid job the organization has done. Critics went through the rest of the more-than-900-page report with a fine-tooth comb but found little else of significance to crow about.
...Absent from next week’s report, for instance, is recent and ongoing research on the rate of warming and what is — or is not — behind the plateau in average global temperatures that the world has experienced during the past 15 years. These questions have important policy implications, and the IPCC is the right body to answer them. But it need not wait six years to do so.

Global warming: Outlook for Earth : Nature News & Comment

As the IPCC finalizes its next big climate-science assessment, Nature looks at the past and future of the planet's watchdog.

Climate science: Rising tide : Nature News & Comment

When Jeff Freymueller, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, visited Alaska's Graves Harbor more than a decade ago, his marine charts showed three isolated little islands; what he saw, instead, were three grassy peninsulas connected to the mainland. That was because water levels in some parts of Alaska are dropping — by up to 3 centimetres per year.

IPCC: The climate chairman : Nature News & Comment

Philosophy was Edenhofer's intellectual refuge early on. Hailing from an arch-conservative part of Bavaria in south Germany, he shocked his parents — and prompted the local book seller to declare him crazy — when he spent his savings at the age of 14 on the three volumes of Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Reading the German philosopher's critique of the capitalist mode of production didn't turn him into an ardent Marxist, but did spark his interest in political economics

Climate change: A patchwork of emissions cuts : Nature News & Comment

The odds of reaching an agreement will be better in 2015 than they were in Copenhagen.

History: Pushing the climate frontier : Nature News & Comment

drought between the late 1880s and early 1890s, coinciding with poor national economic conditions, caused starvation, bankruptcy and social unrest