{"id":59234,"date":"2021-09-08T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59234"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:39:17","slug":"its-time-to-acknowledge-the-spectacular-success-of-the-ipcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59234","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the\u00a0IPCC."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the\u00a0IPCC.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cUS support was probably critical to IPCC\u2019s establishment. And why did the US government support it? Assistant Undersecretary of State Bill Nitze wrote to me a few years later saying that our group\u2019s activities played a significant role. Among other motivations, the US government saw the creation of the IPCC as a way to\u00a0Prevent\u00a0<\/strong>the activism stimulated by my colleagues and me from controlling the policy agenda.\u201d
\nThe home of climate change denial was instrumental in setting up the IPCC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect that the Reagan Administration believed that, in contrast to our group, most scientists were not activists, and would take years to reach any conclusion on the magnitude of the threat. Even if they did, they probably would fail to express it in plain English. The US government must have been quite surprised when IPCC issued its first assessment at the end of 1990, stating clearly that human activity was likely to produce an unprecedented warming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source How the IPCC Got Started;\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/11\/01\/ipcc_beginnings\/?fbclid=IwAR2zAs7si4qlWlKGbvwbsHjGS9Eh9DJlRt0isWqva97INhqOGuin5yF1vgU<\/a><\/p>\n

The IPCC was designed to fail, part of their mandate is to not make recommendations that would constrict economic growth.<\/p>\n

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Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Valencia Spain, Nov 17, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s no action before 2012, that\u2019s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment\u201d<\/p>\n

Survivable IPCC projections based on science\u00a0fiction.
\n\u201cIn the latest \u2018Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report\u2019 (IPCC AR5), there have been published a selection of \u2018Representative Concentration Pathways\u2019 (RCP\u2019s).
\nDr Matt Watson, from the school of earth Sciences at the University of Bristol (UK), made this point strongly at a recent meeting at the Royal Society in London:…<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Time to Acknowledge the Spectacular Success of the\u00a0IPCC. \u201cUS support was probably critical to IPCC\u2019s establishment. And why did the US government support it? Assistant Undersecretary of State Bill Nitze wrote to me a few years later saying that our group\u2019s activities played a significant role. Among other motivations, the US government saw the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[379,5161,440,19308,822,826],"class_list":["post-59234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-government","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-kevin-hester","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59235,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions\/59235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}