What is the NIPCC?
A few days ago, I received a copy of the 850-page report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), which was recently published by The Heartland Institute. The report is titled
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The lead authors of this report are Dr. Craig Idso, Chairman at the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and Dr. S. Fred Singer, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). Singer is also Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia and has been previously interviewed by AccuWeather.com's Katie Fehlinger on Headline Earth.
According to the report, the SEPP set up the NIPCC to produce an independent evaluation of the available scientific evidence when new errors and falsehoods were observed in the initial drafts of the Fourth Assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The NIPCC is an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change.
I will admit, I do not have the time to read through the entire 850-page report, but I did browse through it. There are a number of topics that are reviewed in the report, such as the following......
1. Climate models 2. Temperature records 3. Solar variability 4. Feedback factors 5. Extreme weather 6. Human health effects
Conclusion of the report
There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of carbon dioxide or methane.
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Over the coming weeks and months I will cover some of the specific reviews within this report and its summary from time to time on this blog. The report offers additional conclusions about climate change, which will also be noted in future posts.
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