Written by CO2 Science Magazine | 31 August 2010

Below you'll find this week's CO2 Science Magazine's latest Journal Reviews. Check 'em out as they are very interesting, peer-reviewed, and above all, digestible.

Greenland Temperatures of the Past Millennium Based on Nitrogen and Argon Isotopic Ratios: An impressive new study testifies to the reality of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age.

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Written by Andrew Orlowski, The Register | 31 August 2010

An enquiry into the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, has recommended administrative changes, including a full-time chief executive. It found the IPCC had "assigned high confidence to statements for which there is very little evidence", had failed to acknowledge criticism, or follow its own guidelines.

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Written by Donna Bowater, Daily Express | 31 August 2010

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.

A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.

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Written by Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail | 31 August 2010

[h/t to Mark] UN climate change experts have been accused of making 'imprecise and vague' statements and over-egging the evidence.

A scathing report into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for it to avoid politics and stick instead to predictions based on solid science.

The probe, by representatives of the Royal Society and foreign scientific academies, took a thinly-veiled swipe at Rajendra Pachauri, the panel's chairman for the past eight years.

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Written by Julian Morris, Moscow Times | 30 August 2010

Millions are suffering and thousands have died from flooding in Pakistan and China. An extraordinary heat wave in Russia sparked fires that caused dreadful pollution and wiped out swathes of the wheat crop. Are these weather-related disasters caused by global warming?

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Written by AFP | 30 August 2010

The UN's climate panel needs to "fundamentally reform" its structure to prevent the kind of embarrassing errors found in a landmark 2007 study on global warming, a review said Monday.

A UN-requested probe of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that the Nobel Prize-winning body was largely successful, despite the political uproar that critics called the "Climategate" scandal.

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Written by Dr. Tim Ball, Canada Free Press | 30 August 2010

This week two events provide opportunities to understand the political influences on climate science and the real influence of climate on politics.

First was Sean Hannity’s program The Green Swindle, a very good overview of the entire range of issues from hijacking of climate science by people at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the dangers of cap and trade.

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Written by Tom Nelson | 27 August 2010

Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish : Nature News

Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.

...during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.

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Written by Dr. Roy W. Spencer | 27 August 2010

After years of re-submissions and re-writes — always to accommodate a single hostile reviewer — our latest paper on feedbacks has finally been published by Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR).

Entitled “On the Diagnosis of Feedback in the Presence of Unknown Radiative Forcing“, this paper puts meat on the central claim of my most recent book: that climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when observing cloud and temperature changes. As a result, the climate system has given the illusion of positive cloud feedback.

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Written by Doug L. Hoffman, Resilient Earth | 26 August 2010

Much concern has been raised by climate scientists regarding ice loss from the world's two remaining continental ice sheets. Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof positive of global warming's onslaught. The latest measurements involve the use of satellite gravimetry, estimating the mass of terrain beneath by detecting slight changes in gravity as a satellite passes overhead. But gravity measurements of ice-mass loss are complicated by glacial isostatic adjustments—compensation for the rise or fall of the underlying crustal material. A new article in Nature Geoscience describes an innovative approach employed to derive ice-mass changes from GRACE data. The report suggests significantly smaller overall ice-mass losses than previous estimates.

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