IPCC Follies
Now that scientists and pundits finally have access to the actual IPCC report on climate change and not just a summary, the dismantling has begun. Roger Pielke Sr., a Ph.D. in meterology and research scientist at UC Boulder, has dedicated an entire blog to the proposition.
He has chosen two first chapter errors(pdf) to highlight, and one of them is so obvious it hardly needs a climate expert to figure out:
“Projecting changes in climate due to changes in greenhouse gases 50 years from now is a very different and much more easily solved problem than forecasting weather patterns just weeks from now. To put it another way, long-term variations brought about by changes in the composition of the atmosphere are much more predictable than individual weather events.”