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Laframboise: Conspiracy of silence

Next month, thousands of bureaucrats, politicians, media, activists and scientists will travel to Durban, South Africa, for the latest round of UN climate talks. We’ll be advised that the world must slash its carbon dioxide emissions because a United Nations … Continue reading

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Foster: A thoroughly political body

‘The Delinquent Teenager’  shows IPCC far from objective science Despite the collapse of the Kyoto process and the decline in public concern, professional environmental alarmists and eco-activists — who are now concentrating their venom on stopping the Keystone XL pipeline … Continue reading

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UN Climate Body Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Levels (2)

The United Nations’ forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be needed to combat the phenomenon. But predictions by researchers vary wildly, and the attempt to find consensus has … Continue reading

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Booker: The IPCC declares Greenpeace in our time

What is the link between a beautiful stretch of north Devon countryside, the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and that ever more curious body, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? The starting point for teasing out this … Continue reading

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Murphy: Inviting the fox into the henhouse

One of the disturbing practices revealed by the great cache of emails out of the University of East Anglia -the so-called Climategate emails -was the attempted shortcutting or corruption of the oh-so precious peer-review process. The emails contained clear declarations … Continue reading

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Watts: A blunder of staggering proportions by the IPCC (1)

Steve McIntyre has uncovered a blunder on the part of Pachauri and the IPCC that is causing waves of doubt and calls for retooling on both sides of the debate. In a nutshell, the IPCC made yet another inflated claim … Continue reading

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Science fictions (2)

What is it about international organisations that makes them so impervious to criticism? If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were a British ministry or quango, it is inconceivable that its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, would still be in his … Continue reading

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Foster: A bad egg (2)

The phrase, “curate’s egg” derives from an 1895 cartoon in the satirical British magazine Punch. A humble curate is having breakfast at the table of a bishop. The bishop suggests that the curate may have a bad egg. “Oh, no, … Continue reading

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CLIMATE CHANGE LIES ARE EXPOSED (2)

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global … Continue reading

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UN climate change panel to be warned over reports (1)

The United Nation’s climate change organisation faces a warning over how it uses scientific facts in its influential reports, following the discovery of a series of embarrassing errors in its work. A review of the practices of the Intergovernmental Panel … Continue reading

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Booker: A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC

The emerging errors of the IPCC’s 2007 report are not incidental but fundamental, says Christopher Booker The news from sunny Bali that there is to be an international investigation into the conduct of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Continue reading

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