There’s a really good piece over on the Nature website about the recommendations made by an independent assessment of the way in which the IPCC currently functions. (hat tip Realclimate) It’s worth reading because a lot of the coverage of the report has been over the top sensationalist nonsense about how the IPCC needs drastic [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate’
IPCC Errors
Posted in climate change, media, tagged climate, climate change, ipcc, media, pachauri on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
NOAA: State of the Climate Report
Posted in climate change, tagged climate, climate change, ecology, environment, NOAA on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recently released a report entitles State of the Climate 2009, which is downloadable in its entirety as a pdf from here, with a web page summarising the report available online here. The findings of this report, which involved over 300 scientists from 48 countries around the world [...]
Mark Lynas – Six Degrees
Posted in book review, climate change, tagged climate, climate change, global warming, Lynas on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Six degrees – Our Future on a Hotter Planet, is the title of Mark Lynas’s 2007 book (this review is from the updated 2008 version) which seeks to give a broad overview of what mainstream scientific opinion (ie those which have appeared in reputable peer reviewed journals) suggests the world might look like over the [...]
Operation Bentham
Posted in activism, climate change, tagged activism, Bentham, climate, climate camp, climatecamp, police on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having mounted a public relations campaign in an attampt to restore the image of the met after the G20 debacle, the police have decided to codename their operation for this year’s Climate Camp Operation Bentham. The operation’s moniker is a reference to the English social theorist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Bentham’s most frequently used concept [...]
