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Confidence in IPCC teetering: BBC reports ‘governments demanding clear explanation’ of warming slowdown

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Sweden to thresh out a critical report on global warming. Scientists will underline, with greater certainty than ever, the role of human activities in rising temperatures. But many governments are demanding a clearer explanation of the  slowdown in temperature increases  since 1998. One participant told BBC News that this pause will be a "central piece" of the summary. Researchers from all over the world  work with the IPCC  to pore over thousands of peer-reviewed studies and produce a summary representing the current state of climate science. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote Governments are demanding a clear explanation of what are the possible causes of this factor” Prof Arthur Petersen Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Its previous report in 2007 was instrumental in helping the panel  share the Nobel Peace Prize  that year. A new Summary for Pol...

Hysterical: IPCC warns of melting Himalayan glaciers again — Pachauri says Glaciergate error was to put a definite date on meltdown!

The glaciers of the Himalayas are melting so fast they will affect the water supplies of a population twice that of the US within 22 years, the head of the world’s leading authority on climate change has warned. “That’s something to be concerned about,” said Rachendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which this week starts releasing its first extensive report in six years on how the global climate is changing. This is the panel’s first big study since it was mired in controversy four years ago over a  mistaken suggestion  in its last assessment in 2007 that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear as early as 2035, a date it  admitted  was “poorly substantiated”. Mr Pachauri faced  calls to resign  at the time but on the eve of the new report’s release, he said the error should not overshadow the looming risks posed by the retreating glaciers, which feed water into rivers supplying some of south As...

IPCC scientists insist global warming only on holiday to salvage reputation, grant money, One-World gov’t

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Climate change is on a 'hiatus' and likely to return with more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels Temperatures have not continued to rise since 1998 Sceptics say climate change is not man-made and question urgent action But IPCC report concludes global warming is '95 per cent' result of humans The IPCC report in 2007 erroneously claimed Himalayas would melt by 2035 Global warming has not stopped - it's just on a 'hiatus' and likely to return with ever more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels - according to a draft report from leading scientists. The 127-page United Nations report, and a shorter summary for policymakers due for release in Stockholm on September 27, suggests a slowdown in Earth's rising temperature can be explained by volcanic ash and a cyclical dip in energy emitted from the sun. While likely to attract opposition from sceptics - who say climate change is not man-made - the UN’s Inter...

EPA chief admits being clueless about any Obama climate plan benefits

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The Obama administration and its dutiful EPA have an ambitious plan to end millions of years of natural “climate change”. Meanwhile, as they determinedly demonstrate heroic world leadership to avert a looming non-disaster, the U.N. IPCC faces a different epic damage control challenge.  As their political operatives meet in Stockholm this week to  finalize their latest Summary for Policymakers report, they’ve got to figure out how to spin  unsettling evidence of  a 17 year “pause” in global temperature rise despite what they love to trumpet as “record high” atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, There are some other inconveniently non-alarming circumstances that the president, his agencies and the U.N. are conveniently overlooking as well. For example, there’s that perplexing rapidly-expanding Arctic sea ice; the lack of increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the world’s five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; the lack of  in...

Irony: 2 days after killing coal jobs, EPA chief says agency will ‘effectively shut down’ without stopgap funding by Oct.1

Huffington Post reports: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says the agency will “effectively shut down” unless Congress approves stopgap funding by Oct. 1. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the agency won’t be able to pay employees. She says only a core group of people will remain on duty in case the EPA has to respond to a “significant emergency.” The vast majority of employees will stay home. That means that most of EPA’s functions, like drafting regulations and enforcing laws to protect the environment, will likely remain stalled until government operations fully resume. Read more… http://junkscience.com/2013/09/23/irony-2-days-after-killing-coal-jobs-epa-chief-says-agency-will-effectively-shut-down-without-stopgap-funding-by-oct-1/ About these ads