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Citizens Audit the UN's Climate Report

Does the 2007 report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meet its own standards? Is there a discrepancy between what we've been told and reality? Has the IPCC chairman misled us? Have news reports misinformed us?

There are compelling reasons to suspect that this is the case. We, the public, have been advised repeatedly that when the IPCC writes its reports it relies solely on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But an examination of two random chapters has revealed that as few as 25 percent of the listed references were peer-reviewed.  

NOconsensus.org has called for volunteers to assist in examining the remainder of this mammoth report, which is often referred to as the climate bible. The goal is for the findings of this crowdsourcing project to be published on this page in early April 2010.

The individuals listed below are part of the team currently conducting a citizen's audit of all 44 IPCC chapters.

Citizen Auditors

Jeremy Abramowitz http://wastedenergy.net/	Anonymous Canada	Anonymous2 New Zealand
Gordon Andelin Reno, Nevada USA	Bob Ashworth B.S. CHE. (WVU 1960) Member, American Geophysical Union bobashworth@earthlink.net www.omsriram.com	Alexandra Belaire BSc. (Physics) Nepean, Ontario Canada
Hazel Brown Melbourne, Australia	David Bruce Glasgow, UK BSc (Hons) www.swap.org.uk	Darko Butina Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire, UK     PhD CChem MRSC Director, Chemomine Consultancy Limited darko.butina@chemomine.co.uk www.chemomine.co.uk
C3 Editor	Jennifer M. Cohen PhD, mathematical physics Pennsylvania, USA	Herve Deveaux Koili, Cyprus    French retired mining engineer. Graduated 1966 from ENSMIN (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Nancy)  as Ingenieur civil des Mines    Specialized in Mining, Geostatistics, Operational research
P Gosselin Quakenbrück, Germany Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, U of Arizona	Gurgeh	Dann Gustavson Silicon Valley, California     BS Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester (N.Y.)      MS Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology danngustavson@verizon.net
J. Harris Edmonton, Alberta Canada B. Comm., LLB	Harry Utrecht, The Netherlands	Robert Herron retired Certified General Accountant and BCommerce (U of Alberta)
Tim Hulsey B.S., Chemistry & Biology, Western Kentucky University    M.D., Vanderbilt University	Mike Jowsey Christchurch, New Zealand mike@a-plus.co.nz	Les Johnson Lloydminster, Alberta Canada
Jane Kerr MA, MPhil United Kingdom	Mark L. Oshawa, Ontario Canada	Donna Laframboise Toronto, Canada creator of NOconsensus.org
David Lee retired software engineer BS physics	Michael E. McKee Santa Ana, California, USA     California State Registered Geologist & Hydrogeologist BS-Earth Science, California State University, Fullerton (1982)     MS-Geological Sciences, San Diego State University (1991) mike AT amehr.com	Riku Mellin Finland
Sarie Moolman EURO Publishing Consultants cc Pretoria, South Africa	John Moore San Jose, Costa Rica	Richard C. Myer Ph.D. (plasma physics) Manchester, New Hampshire, USA rcmyer1@aol.com
Hilary Ostrov The View From Here blog	Larry Pope Caledon East, Ontario Canada B Com 1980 cousinarlo@inbox.com	Dan Rempel Victoria, British Columbia Canada B.A. (Linguistics)
Tom Reeher	D. Robinson Georgina, Ontario Canada	Jon Salmi Stockton, California USA suomi43@aol.com
Sam ClimateQuotes.com	Andy Scrase Christchurch, New Zealand     MA Mathematics, Cambridge University     MSc Geophysics, Leeds University     PhD, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Scotland    25 years technical and scientific professional www.scrase.com andy@scrase.com	Michael A. Saunders B Sc. (Geophysics) Houston, Texas USA
southfarthing Canada	Oguzhan (Oggi)Tandogac Brisbane, Queensland Australia	TTY Sweden
Redmond Weissenberger Ontario, Canada	Danny Weston United Kingdom    BA (Hons) Philosophy MA Philosophy    MA Research Methods in Politics & Int'l Relations Katabasis blog

>> Help audit the UN climate report - crowdsourcing project
>> sample audited chapter (Word document converted to HTML)
>> great How-To Guide, including examples
>> short FAQ
>> Who's concerned about the climate report?

>> The great peer-review fairy tale
>> Almost half non-peer-reviewed
>> More dodgy citations in the Nobel-winning climate report
>> Yes Virginia, the climate bible relies on newspaper clippings
>> Greenpeace and the Nobel-winning climate report

[last edit: April 2010]