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[Sustainable development and much more] In 2007, the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their Fourth Assessment Report - a study of global warming that involved nearly 4000 scientists from more than 150 countries.
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[Natural Environment Blog] Global Warming is Happening Faster than Predicted: Tina Tin continues, “Climate change is a major challenge to the future of mankind and the environment, and this sobering overview highlights just how critical it is that EU Environment Ministers discussing the EU legislations against climate change today commit to a strong climate and energy package, in order to ensure a low carbon future”.
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[objectivismonline.net Meta-Blog] The Power of the Fourth Branch of Government: Many claim that their input was either dismissed, suppressed or ignored by the IPCC, even when they were initially involved as expert reviewers. And there are many other scientists who simply claim that nobody can get a handle on something as vastly complex as global climate change at our present state of knowledge.
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[Watts Up With That?] New Paper from Roy Spencer: PDO and Clouds: To show that we are not the only researchers who have documented evidence contradicting the IPCC models, I made the following figure to contrast the IPCC-projected warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the warming that would result if the climate sensitivity is as low as implied by various kinds of observational evidence. The dashed line represents our recent apples-to-apples comparison between satellite-based feedback estimates and IPCC model-diagnosed feedbacks, all computed from 5-year periods (Spencer and Braswell, 2008a):
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[The Situationist] Jeffrey Sachs on Our Situation - Part V: But, more than that, there are obviously deliberately obfuscatory forces the corporate world and the religious world and others that take shots at all of this. And so the publics utterly confused even when the scientific community has a rich knowledge and understanding of very complex challenges. So the IPPC is a process that was designed to bring in a serious methodical - some would say plodding, but still it works - methodical way for scientific knowledge and consensus to the broad public. And its having its effect on slowly, grudgingly dragging the world into a recognition about climate change risk. Because it has a certain authority to the way it has been carefully constructed to be open, transparent, honest, pure review base to deliver that sense of consensus. We need that on many, many fronts. We dont have that kind of process right now. Congressional oversight doesnt work. The administration and the mechanisms of our departments are independent of science. And so we need to invent new ways to bridge the divide.
[Dr. Evans Blog] The Tautology of ClLimate Change: The committee’s claims were subsequently rejected by the Government and the Stern Review on the economics of climate change, but the vested-interests argument unites sceptics, and mirrors the accusations often levelled at them in turn, that they are in the pockets of big oil, big gas, or the US Republican Party.
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[akim joseph] HOLES IN THE OZONE LAYER: In 1990, the first Scientific Assessment of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a document that is the underpinning for the Rio Treaty, stated, "When the latest atmospheric models are run with the .
[sydney alternative media - non-profit community independent trustworthy] Hawkesbury City Council public duty to protect their World ...: Recent observational data show that relative to the worst-case scenario model developed by the IPCC, climate change is occurring more rapidly and at a greater magnitude than anticipated. These recent significant upwards increases in climate change rates coupled with an inherent uncertainty associated with the limited temporal data elucidating the ground water-extraction relationship, direct us to consider the matter with caution.
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