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Map Node  Claims about IPCC url anchor

Question Node  What are the IPCC arguments? url anchor

Answer Node  IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests url anchor

Tags:  Amazon rainforests, IPCC

Pro Node  The IPCC also made false predictions on the Amazon rain forests, referenced to a non peer-reviewed paper produced by an advocacy group working with the WWF. url anchor

The IPCC also made false predictions on the Amazon rain forests, referenced to a non peer-reviewed paper produced by an advocacy group working with the WWF. This time though, the claim made is not even supported by the report and seems to be a complete fabrication url anchor
Reference Node  http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-now-for-amazongate.html url anchor
Reference: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-now-for-amazongate.html

Con Node  The IPCC statement on Amazon rainforests was correct, and was incorrectly reported in some media url anchor

Tags:  IPCC, incorrectly reported
Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-false-predictions-Amazon-rainforests.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-false-predictions-Amazon-rainforests.htm

Answer Node  The IPCC consensus is phoney url anchor

Pro Node  The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming url anchor

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper forProgress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony. url anchor
Reference Node  http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1092-the-ipcc-consensus-was-phoney-says-mike-hulme.html url anchor
Reference: http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1092-the-ipcc-consensus-was-phoney-says-mike-hulme.html

Con Node  Ironically, it's those who are mispresenting Hulme's paper that are the ones being misleading url anchor

Tags:  Professor Mike Hulme
Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hulme-IPCC-consensus.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hulme-IPCC-consensus.htm

Answer Node  IPCC overestimate temperature rise url anchor

Tags:  overestimate, Temperature data, IPCC, rising

Pro Node  The IPCC’s predicted equilibrium warming path bears no relation to the far lesser rate of “global warming” that has been observed in the 21st century to date. url anchor

Reference Node  http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/co2_report_july_2010.pdf url anchor
Reference: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/co2_report_july_2010.pdf

Con Node  Monckton used the IPCC equation in an inappropriate manner url anchor

Tags:  flawed research, Christopher Monckton
Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-overestimate-global-warming.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-overestimate-global-warming.htm

Answer Node  IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers url anchor

Tags:  IPCC, Himalayan glaciers, glaciers

Con Node  Glaciers are in rapid retreat worldwide, despite 1 error in 1 paragraph in a 1000 page IPCC report. url anchor

Tags:  glaciers
Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-Himalayan-glacier-2035-prediction.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-Himalayan-glacier-2035-prediction.htm

Pro Node  Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. url anchor

Two years ago the IPCC issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report. It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. url anchor
Tags:  Jawaharlal Nehru University, Syed Hasnain, New Scientist magazine
Reference Node  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece url anchor
Reference: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

Answer Node  IPCC is alarmist url anchor

Tags:  IPCC

Pro Node   to build the scientific case for humanity being the primary cause of global warming is hostile to alternative hypotheses for the causes of climate change. url anchor

Unquestionably, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed to build the scientific case for humanity being the primary cause of global warming. Such a goal is fundamentally unscientific, as it is hostile to alternative hypotheses for the causes of climate change. url anchor
Tags:  U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC
Reference Node  http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/10/ipcc-crushes-scientific-objectivity-91-0/ url anchor
Reference: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/10/ipcc-crushes-scientific-objectivity-91-0/
Tags:  Roy Spencer

Con Node  The IPCC summarizes the recent research by leading scientific experts url anchor

Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-scientific-consensus.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-scientific-consensus.htm
Tags:  Consensus
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