A Contrarian Spin on the Next Big Climate Report

Some Green readers have probably heard by now that a draft of the next big United Nations report on climate change has leaked . The agent of the leak is a rather colorful climate contrarian named Alec Rawls , who essentially claimed , on the basis of a single sentence in the draft, that the entire edifice of climate science is about to collapse. In his interpretation, the group putting the report together, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , is about to acknowledge the validity of a longstanding fringe theory: that cosmic rays have a huge influence on the earth’s climate. This claim turns out to be an overstatement, to say the least. But first, what do the leak and the accompanying flurry of reaction on blogs tell us about the United Nations exercise of periodically summarizing climate science? These reports come out roughly every five years. They are unlike an...

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@RoseKAnderson » 18 Dec '12, 6pm
#ClimateChange deniers grasping at straws, as usual [link]
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RT @MichaelEMann: Justin Gillis @NYTimes wrote thoughtfully about leaked IPCC report #climatechange #denier PR stunt. UPI taking notes? [link]
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RT @frankejames: MT @HeidiCullen Justin Gillis does an excellent job explaining the IPCC leak...pitch perfect [link] via @nytimesgreen #climate
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RT @DaniNierenberg: NYT's Justin Gillis on the leak of the draft of the next big climate report [link] (via @nytimesgreen)
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RT @LizMinchin: #Brisbane journo @readfearn was ahead of @nytimes & quoted in its piece on IPCC leak [link] #climate - nice work graham
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@LizMinchin » 14 Dec '12, 11pm
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@edwiebe » 14 Dec '12, 11pm
Here's a great summary of the IPCC leak and related non-controversy. Thanks @nytimesgreen #climatechange [link]
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Great piece addressing the IPCC 'leak'. Via @HeidiCullen [link]
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NYT's Justin Gillis on the leak of the draft of the next big climate report [link]
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