Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Climate: More errors found in IPCC report

There are now several known errors in the IPCC report, bogus glacier's melting claim and the amount of land under sea level in the Netherlands. The prediction that the would drop looks to now be wrong, but some are arguing that it did not need to be a peer reviled source, that is splitting hairs. Some sites are reporting the retreat of the Sahara and now that seems to be credited to "global warming."

The latest development is that the report ignored the fact that the Antaric ice was growing and that the report understated the

Antarctic Sea Ice Increase by 50%

While all the press is about the observed declines in Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades, little attention at all is paid to the fact that the sea ice extent in the Antarctic has been on the increase. No doubt the dearth of press coverage stems from the IPCC treatment of this topic.

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So, the peer reviewed literature, both extant at the time of the AR4 as well as published since the release of the AR4, shows that there has been a significant increase in the extent of sea ice around Antarctica since the time of the first satellite observations observed in the late 1970s. And yet the AR4 somehow “assessed” the evidence and determined not only that the increase was only half the rate established in the peer-reviewed literature, but also that it was statistically insignificant as well. And thus, the increase in sea ice in the Antarctic was downplayed in preference to highlighting the observed decline in sea ice in the Arctic.