[Please note UPDATE at the end of this post -hro] The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the body under whose auspices each late November – early December a COP (Conference of the Parties) and CMP (“Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol”) are…
As anyone with a passing familiarity with the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is aware, later this month (September 23 to 26, to be precise), an unknown number of unnamed “Government Representatives” will gather – along with an unknown number of unnamed “scientists” and an unknown number of unnamed representatives of…
“I am writing simply to express my support for the mission of the Society of Environmental Journalists. I am convinced that it is a worthwhile — even a necessary — organization. And in my lexicon, ‘necessary’ is one of the highest possible forms of praise.” — Bill McKibben, author (Source) Such glowing praise from well-known…
[07/25/2013 12:14 PM – please note update below] Ottawa based Stewart Elgie – not unlike IPCC-nik and recently elected British Columbia Green Party MLA, Andrew Weaver – has a history of putting advocacy carts ahead of evidence horses. I first encountered Elgie and his enchantment with BC’s carbon tax a little over a year ago.…
A week ago, I had posted an open letter to the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC does not have a history of being particularly responsive – and certainly not in a timely fashion, as Australia’s Tony Thomas had noted in a recent post at Quadrant. Following his receipt of…
There have been a couple of so-called debates pertaining to climate change that I’ve watched over the past few days, thanks to pointers at Andrew Montford’s Bishop Hill. The first was not really a “debate” (at least not by my definition of the word); but rather an Al-Jazeera English (AJ) editing of a live event…
As Donna Laframboise noted a few days ago, Canada’s aging, self-appointed, guru of greenism, David Suzuki has landed himself in hot water with some despicable and idiotic remarks he had made to a French newspaper on Canada Day (July 1). The National Post has a weekly feature that provides imaginary snippets from the “diary” of…
[07/13/2013 Please note UPDATE at end of this post] Stephen Emmott is yet another self-appointed third-rate prophet of doom; he seems to have risen through the ranks of the “climate concerned” to indisputable “drama queen” who is currently basking in the glory of his “hamuscript” being (unfathomably, IMHO) chosen for publication by Penguin Books. If…
In a post on her blog yesterday, Dr. Judith Curry cited several excerpts from a recent (undated) submission via KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorological Society) on “The Future of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]” Curry begins her post as follows: The IPCC is soliciting input from participating nations regarding the future of the IPCC.…
[Please note UPDATE within text below -hro] Rajendra K. Pachauri is the (somewhat unwanted and some would say unqualified) Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s much vaunted – and daunting, if not positively scary – Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the first volume of which (or rather, the first wave of…
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