By Oliver Wright, Whitehall Editor,
The Independent
The world's foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN in 1988 to advise governments on the science behind global warming, issued a report last month suggesting renewable sources could provide 77 per cent of the world's energy supply by 2050. But in supporting documents released this week, it emerged that the claim was based on a real-terms decline in worldwide energy consumption over the next 40 years – and that the lead author of the section concerned was an employee of Greenpeace. Not only that, but the modelling scenario used was the most optimistic of the 164 investigated by the IPCC.
Critics said the decision to highlight the 77 per cent figure showed a bias within the IPCC against promoting potentially carbon-neutral energies such as nuclear fuel. One climate change sceptic said it showed the body was not truly independent and relied too heavily on green groups for its evidence.
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IPCC WG3 and the Greenpeace Karaoke
By Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit
On May 9, 2011, the IPCC announced:
Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows.
In accompanying interviews, IPCC officials said that the obstacles were not scientific or technological, but merely a matter of political will.
GWPF Panel Debate: No Fly Zone Europe?
Global Warming Policy Foundation
The Global Warming Policy Foundation is pleased to invite you to a public panel debate on the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme and its potential impact on UK and international aviation.
No Fly Zone Europe? Will Europe's Green Policy Trigger Global Trade War?
When: Thursday, 30 June 2011 -- 12:30 - 14:00
Junk Science Week: No climate death in Venice
By Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
We interrupt our scheduled Junk Science Week material to bring you news from the front line of the global climate scare.
First, we take you to Venice, Italy. The news is that Venice will not disappear, contrary to scaremongering from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Back in 2007, on the release of an IPCC report, United Nations climatologist Osvaldo Canziani warned that rising sea levels caused by global warming would create an environmental catastrophe at one of the world’s greatest artistic and architectural treasures.
“The water of the lagoon will continue to rise. If things carry on like this, Venice is destined to disappear,” said Mr. Canziani, then deputy head of the IPCC, an organization expert in generating headlines.
