Do people understand what the scientific quality of the IPCC report is?

Question

The IPCC report will be available in a few weeks. It will cost money, it's 1600 pages. But someone will put it up online at some point.

The IPCC report is the biggest scientific paper ever, with the most data, the nost authors, and the most peer review, in the history of science. It is the very pinnacle of hard scientific research. The last paper to hold that title was the last IPCC report in 2001. You can look at that one here.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/online.htm

Science does not get any solider than this.

Answer 1

There have been many really good scientific reports about this subject in the past, by other research institutes. They all have been pointing in the same direction as this last report. This is hardly more than a confirmation of all these past report, whatever the precise contents. I can only hope that it will help to the awareness around the world about the problems that will be cause by global warming. I will also hope that if people will see the truth in this report, many will regain their trust in science. It'll be the downfall of humanity when science is smeared and neglected as it has been lately. We're just too dependant on it.

Answer 2

"solider"???

Yes I understand the quality of the IPCC report, or more specifically the lack thereof. Do you understand the term "forgone conclusion"? It's hard to imagine these "scientists" were basing their "findings" on the data, when they were already working on:

"Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming."

Would've sucked for them if they'd found no connection....


"Global warming could eventually lead to an 'ice-free Arctic,' warned Gerry Meehl, an official with the U.S National Center for Atmospheric Research.

And when that happened 125,000 years ago, seas rose between 13 and 20 feet. That is looking like a real possibility for the 22nd Century, the report said, though some scientists fear much of it could happen before the end of the century."

.....how much oil were we using 125,000 years ago???

Answer 3

Science has to have proof. to make hypothesis and theories facts. What "IPCC" is "Belief" not fact.

Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

"The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee

12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks.

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

"In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent.

"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

Answer 4

It is true that all this is an interplanetary com plot to make the earth warmer, Zircons will invade earth in a few years and they prefer warmer planets, and all you pathetic earthlings are being used by them to accomplish that by brainwashing you with the TVs to make you believe that you really need a big SUV and to travel in those ridiculously slow planes that pollute as much as 5000 SUVs when taking off.
Be prepared!

Answer 5

Correction: Science doesnt get any more solid than this. "Solider" is not a word....

And have you seen that some cconservative American think tank is now offering $10G to any scientist who is willing to write a paper that negates this report??

Yeah, $10G ought to cover ridiculing yourself in front of the entire scientific community...

I apologize to the rest of the world for my stupid compatriot conservative Americans.... dumbasses...

Answer 6

The IPCC full report is now available online ...

Answer 7

If you believe in global warming, it'll just reaffirm your beliefs.

If you don't believe in global warming, it'll just look like another vast left-wing conspiracy.