Comments on: IPCC Sabotages an Interacademy Recommendation

By: The IAC Report One Year Later « NoFrakkingConsensus

The IAC Report One Year Later « NoFrakkingConsensus — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:06:37 +0000

[...] there was Steve McIntyre’s discovery in June. Another report recommendation involved the establishment of an IPCC Executive Committee. [...]

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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:06:46 +0000

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By: tetris

tetris — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:48:43 +0000

Care to provide an exhaustive list?

By: Ian_UK

Ian_UK — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:51:05 +0000

If the performance of non-exec directors of UK FTSE companies (esp. banks) is anything to go by, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference if they did comply with the recommendation.

By: roncram

roncram — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:28:33 +0000

Okay, but they made some good recommendations too.

By: Ross McKitrick

Ross McKitrick — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:16:30 +0000

The 44-member IPCC Bureau is where the power resides in that organization. It is, in principle, subject to oversight by the 195 country-appointed delegates of the Panel itself, but the oversight is virtually non-existent. It is a bloated rubber stamp body.

The IAC’s recommendation to create an Executive Council was incredibly naive. Maybe they thought it would speed up the process of responding to errors and controversies by creating an executive body that would act on behalf of the Panel in an expeditious fashion. But the Bureau proposed a composition of the Executive Council that almost exactly overlaps with the Bureau itself, so when the Panel approved the “reform” recommendation they gave the Bureau even more power, making them able to act on behalf of the Panel rather than under its oversight.

By: roncram

roncram — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:56:03 +0000

Judith Curry has recently posted on her blog about a Richard Toll paper on the “IPCC knowledge monopoly.” See http://judithcurry.com/2011/06/16/ipcc-as-a-knowledge-monopoly/

Toll is rightly critical of the monopoly position the IPCC currently holds in the international community. His ideas are to “regulate” it or create competition. Toll’s ideas about competition are somewhat similar to mine. Dr. Curry was also kind enough to mention my proposal which can be found here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/13/a-modest-proposal-in-lieu-of-disbanding-the-ipcc/

The question is which entity will lead the competitive assessment of climate science? I think the Interacademy Council is in a good position to do, especially since the IPCC has ignored their recommendations.

By: PaddikJ

PaddikJ — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:21:29 +0000

Who/what does the IPCC answer to? Who/What holds the purse strings?

By: justbeau

justbeau — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:58:02 +0000

Given the importance of the IPCC’s urgent mission to save the Earth, it does not have time to waste by operating in a prudent and sensible way.