Citat:
“Take sophisticated and sometimes inconclusive science, and boil it down to usable advice for lawmakers. To meet that goal, scientists working with the IPCC say they sometimes faced institutional bias toward oversimplification…
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“I was suspicious of the hockey stick,” Mr. Christy said in an interview. Had Mr. Briffa’s concerns been more widely known, “The story coming out of the [report] may have been different in tone and confidence.”
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In September 2000, Filippo Giorgi of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, wrote a worried email. He said he felt pressure to cite simulations that hadn’t yet been published in a scientific journal. He worried it showed a relaxation of standards.
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The data were the subject of heated back-and-forth before the IPCC’s 2001 report. John Christy, one of the section’s lead authors, said at the time that he tried in vain to make sure the report reflected the uncertainty.
The IPCC’s rules “have been softened to the point that in this way the IPCC is not any more an assessment of published science (which is its proclaimed goal),” he wrote in the email. Mr. Giorgi added: “At this point there are very little rules and almost anything goes. I think this will set a dangerous precedent.”"
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“I was suspicious of the hockey stick,” Mr. Christy said in an interview. Had Mr. Briffa’s concerns been more widely known, “The story coming out of the [report] may have been different in tone and confidence.”
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In September 2000, Filippo Giorgi of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, wrote a worried email. He said he felt pressure to cite simulations that hadn’t yet been published in a scientific journal. He worried it showed a relaxation of standards.
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The data were the subject of heated back-and-forth before the IPCC’s 2001 report. John Christy, one of the section’s lead authors, said at the time that he tried in vain to make sure the report reflected the uncertainty.
The IPCC’s rules “have been softened to the point that in this way the IPCC is not any more an assessment of published science (which is its proclaimed goal),” he wrote in the email. Mr. Giorgi added: “At this point there are very little rules and almost anything goes. I think this will set a dangerous precedent.”"
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704188104575083681319834978.html?m od=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
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