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September 2, 2010: "Latest Report On IPCC Another Insult As They Move Deck Chairs On The Titanic", by Dr. Tim Ball, ICSC science advisor, environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, Canada Free Press.

"The most recent whitewash began with UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon ordering a supposedly independent investigation. The Inter Academy Council (IAC), which combines 15 Science Academies, whatever that means, were assigned to produce a very limited report. “The review by the IAC will not involve any in-depth analysis of the report produced by the IPCC, or of any “vast amounts of data”.

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September 2, 2010: UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs fundamental changes - see Report on InterAcademy Council IPCC Review Website: http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/.  As reported in the press:

• "UN climate experts 'overstated dangers': Keep your noses out of politics, scientists told", by Fiona Macrae, The Mail On-line, London, United Kingdom. "UN climate change experts have been accused of making 'imprecise and vague' statements and over-egging the evidence. A scathing report into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for it to avoid politics and stick instead to predictions based on solid science." Read whole piece.
• "U.N. climate body needs 'fundamental reform,' says report", by Thair Shaikh, CNN, U.S.A. "The United Nations' climate body needs to "fundamentally reform" if it is to prevent a repeat of the error that led to the publishing of a report warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, an international committee reported Monday." Read whole piece.
• "IPCC told to stop lobbying and restrict role to explaining climate science", by Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett, The Daily Telegraph, London, United Kingdom. "Harold Shapiro, a Princeton University professor and chair of the committee that conducted the review, said that a report by an IPCC working group "contains many statements that were assigned high confidence but for which there is little evidence."  Read whole piece.
• "UN slams IPCC on report", India Today. "The inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been told not to make policy suggestions based on weak scientific evidence and to clearly convey uncertainties connected with climate change while preparing its assessment reports." Read whole piece.
• "Matt Ridley: This Discredited IPCC Process Must Be Purged - We cannot make sane decisions on global warming if the ‘experts’ present us with evidence that is biased, The Times, London, United Kingdom. "Yesterday, after a four-month review, a committee of scientists concluded that the Nobel prize-winning IPCC has “assigned high confidence to statements for which there is very little evidence”, has failed to enforce its own guidelines, has been guilty of too little transparency, has ignored critical review comments and has had no policies on conflict of interest”. Read whole piece.
• "Climate change body told: Get facts right", by Stephen Foley, New Zealand Herald. "Authors reported high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence. Furthermore, by making vague statements that were difficult to refute, authors were able to attach "high confidence" to the statements', it said. One summary for policy makers 'contains many such statements that are not supported sufficiently in the literature, not put into perspective, or not expressed clearly'." Read whole piece.
• "Big changes proposed to UN climate panel", The Associated Press, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Web site.  "Still, Shapiro said the way the report expressed confidence in scientific findings was incomplete and at times even misleading. In the panel's first report, which is about the physical causes of global warming, scientists may have underestimated how confident they were in their conclusions, Shapiro said. But the second report, about the effects on daily life, in at least one instance claimed high confidence when there was no backing for that, he said." Read whole piece.

August 23, 2010: "Reflected Sunlight Shines On IPCC Deceptions And Gross Inadequacies - Albedo rates, Greenhouse gases, Carbon Dioxide, CO2", by Dr. Tim Ball, ICSC science advisor, environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, Canada Free Press.

"Global warming due to humans is based on the hypothesis that our addition of CO2 has changed the balance of energy entering and leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. There are a multitude of factors that can change this balance, many ignored or underplayed by climate science.  They get away with this because the public is unaware."

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August 20, 2010: "WE HAVE BEEN CONNED - An Independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)", by John McLean, Climate Data Analyst, Computer scientist, PhD candidate (James Cook University), Melbourne, Australia, published on the Science & Public Policy Institute Web page (Washington DC).

"The [IPCC] Assessment Reports show very clearly that knowledge of many climate factors is poor, which means that accurate models can't be created, but later chapters of the report ignore those deficiencies and cite the predictions of models as if they were unchallengeable. Worse yet, these same models are used [to] attribute blame for variation in climate under the risible notion that if observations agree with models that include a certain factor but disagree with the models if that factor is omitted, then it is evidence that the factor was the cause of climate variation. This line of reason, with the incomplete climate models, is not merely a rejection of commonsense but blatant dishonesty. What's more, the rationale behind this attribution means that blame can only be attributed to climate forces that are accurately modelled, and the IPCC mentions just one force that it considers to be in that category - manmade emissions of carbon dioxide (Chapter 6)."

August 18, 2010: "Why Warming Is Falsely Reported When World Is Cooling - Obsession with finding human causes means they ignore what we know about natural mechanisms", by Dr. Tim Ball, environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. Originally published on August 16th in Canada Free Press.

Finally, a weather person has mentioned the word “blocking” when talking about the heat and fires in Moscow. It’s a natural event as the world shifts from the warming trend of the 1990s to a cooling trend since 2000. Distortion of reality about global temperatures continues with warming claims while Western North America, most of Eurasia and large areas of the southern hemisphere report below normal temperatures. It’s been the coldest summer on record north of 80°N latitude and rate of sea ice melt continues to decrease.

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July 22, 2010: Interview with Professor Tim Patterson on CKCU FM (93.1) radio (specifically the Geography and Environmental Studies Radio program - see here for description), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.  Listen to Part 1 here.  Listen to Part 2 here.  Dr. Patterson gives an overview of the climate science debate, including some of the new discoveries.