Tag Archives: review

IPCC Review Editors Comments Online

Apr 1, 2008 – 9:36 AM

IPCC Review Editors have an extremely important function under IPCC procedures. In prior discussion of the Replies by WG1 Chapter Authors to Review Comments, we noted their unresponsiveness on issues that we were familiar with e.g. the deletion of the inconvenient post-1960 Briffa reconstruction results, the handling of the HS dispute. When the IPCC WG1 […]

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IPCC Review Comments Now Online

Jun 26, 2007 – 1:20 PM

Well, here is a small accomplishment that I think can reasonably be credited to climateaudit. As we approach the due date for the NOAA FOI responses, IPCC has now put the review comments online. Enjoy.

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How IPCC AR4 authors defended the Briffa data deletions

Jun 16, 2007 – 2:20 PM

I recently received a copy of how IPCC authors answered the review comments, including their answers to the requirement of one reviewer that the deleted Briffa data be restored (and an explanation given for the inconvenient bits.) You may recall the observation of one reader in the discussion of Swindle, the reader observing: If a […]

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FOI Request to NOAA

Jun 7, 2007 – 1:54 PM

IPCC has just written me saying that they will send me review comments on chapter 6 subject to the following restriction: As this additional form of distribution is being provided in conjunction with the review process, the compiled comments are not for re-distribution to others. Given that the review comments are supposedly in an “open […]

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IPCC 4AR – Access to Review Comments

Apr 17, 2006 – 1:46 PM

Last week, the review of the second draft of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report began. Some readers here are IPCC reviewers and may not be aware of the following provision of Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work http://www.ipcc.ch/about/app-a.pdf, which states that: "All written expert, and government review comments will be made available to […]

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