Forbes India has an account of how a retired geologist took apart the alarmist climate claims of a Nobel Prize winning organization.
Hell Breaks Loose
Raina vividly remembers the day the report was released. “It is surprising that even on the day when this document was released by the minister, a lot of press asked me questions but nobody bothered to put them in the papers because probably at that time they thought this fellow knows nothing… yeh to mantriji ne kar diya,” he says. He was partially correct. Not many took the statement too seriously in the beginning, except for some stray critics writing in the media. But the one man who took immediate note of it and reacted bitterly was R. K. Pachauri, chairman of IPCC.
Read the Forbes India article: V K Raina: The Man Who Came In From The Cold
A report in Newsweek, Iceberg Ahead, looks at the current state of climate science and politics… and how things got to this point.
What went wrong? Part of the blame lies, of course, with those who obstructed the efforts of the IPCC and the individual scientists, including bloggers who tried to sandbag scientists with spurious FOIA requests, and the perpetrators (as yet unknown) of the hack at the Climatic Research Unit. Part of the blame also falls on the climate scientists themselves. Many of them—including perhaps Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC head—may have stepped too far over the line from science to advocacy, undermining their own credibility. Some scientists, as a result, are now calling for a change in tone from antagonism to reconciliation. Climate science, they say, needs to open its books and be more tolerant of scrutiny from the outside. Its institutions—notably the IPCC—need to go about their business with greater transparency. "The circle-the-wagons mentality has backfired," says Judith Curry, head of Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Read more: Iceberg Ahead – Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet.
The Netherlands’ largest daily newspaper, Der Telegraf, has totally vindicated the country’s most prominent global warming skeptic in an article titled, "Henk Tennekes – He was right after all (English translation)."
The director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, Tennekes’ very vocal skepticism of the climate science from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change resulted in his forced resignation.
Tennekes continues to be very critical of the IPCC and the climate science of today:
“Why does the IPCC ignore the oceans? The top 2½ meters of all sea-water contain as much heat as
the total amount of heat in the atmosphere. Why has the topmost kilometre of the oceans turned
colder during the last five years?
We don’t know. Until we understand what is happening with the heat in the oceans, the models
which aim to predict the climate are totally useless.”
Read more:"Henk Tennekes – He was right after all (English translation)."
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli turned up the heat on global warming yesterday.
On behalf of the state, Cuccinelli filed a petition asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its December finding that global warming poses a threat to people.
Cuccinelli also filed a petition with the federal appeals court in Washington seeking a court review of the EPA finding.
read more: Va. challenges EPA’s stance on global warming
The last several months have been a very interesting time for those who monitor climate change issues. Finally, problems with the “settled science” of climate change are hitting main stream media outlets. A concise Wall Street Journal editorial chronicles the majority of the most significant issues identified so far.
It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the "settled science" of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard.
Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal: The Continuing Climate Meltdown.
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