MET OFFICE FORECASTS: ALWAYS WRONG BUT NEVER IN DOUBT

Dr David Whitehouse reviews the track record of the U.K. Met Office at the Global Warming Policy Foundation website.

"When it comes to testing a climate model, the future is more important than the past.  You can take your model and adjust its various parameters to fit observations already made, but the crucial test is how well that model matches the future. This involves making a prediction, but, as they say, prediction is difficult, especially about the future."

CANADA WILL PULL OUT OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL

Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol.

One more of the world's top 20 economies pulling back from an embarassing boondoggle.

COUNTERING THE BIAS: ALLOW DISCUSSION OF ALTERNATE THEORIES

Dr Roy Spencer discusses inevitable bias associated with human endeavours and the inherent bias of the IPCC at his website.

"For years John Christy and I have been advising Congress that some portion of the appropriated funds for federal agencies supporting climate change research should be mandated to support alternative hypotheses of climate change. It’s time for the pendulum to start swinging back the other way.

After all, scientists will go where the money is. If scientists are funded to find evidence of natural sources of climate change, believe me, they will find it."

CLIMATE FORECASTS EXAGGERATED

Dramatic forecasts of global warming resulting from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been exaggerated, according to a peer-reviewed study by a team of international researchers.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE IPCC? PROF. McKITRICK ASKS

First Donna Laframboise with her revealing book on the methods of the IPCC and now Professor Ross McKitrick from the University of Guelph with his methodical paper exposing flawed processes and inherent bias.

Former prime minister John Howard AC says in the foreword to the paper "Professor McKitrick’s report focuses on the reporting procedures of the IPCC. The intellectual bullying, which has been a feature of the behaviour of some global warming zealots,
makes this report necessary reading if there is to be an objective assessment
of all of the arguments. The attempt of many to close down the debate is
disgraceful, and must be resisted.

Ross McKitrick has written a well-researched and articulate critique of the
IPCC’s methods. It deserves careful study, especially by those who remain in
an agnostic state on this issue".

Professor McKitrick in Canana's Financial Post: Fix It or Fold It

MUCH UNCERTAINTY IN LATEST IPCC REPORT

The Summary for Policymakers has just been released for the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters by the IPCC.

The acknowledged widespread uncertainty over the causes of extreme weather events contained within the report must have some policymakers squirming uncomfortably as it contradicts so completely the mantra of "the science is settled".

What is certain is that countries that have acted early and taken legislative action, such as Australia, will be paying for uncertain outcomes.