* Posts by nwbailey

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Glacier boffins rubbish IPCC apocalypse claims

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Inaccurate

This is indeed an error that Georg Kaser has identified.

Unfortunately for this article, it is simple two sentences in a multi-thousand page report. Aside from these two sentences, the dozens of pages analyzing glacial melt are accurate.

In fact, Georg Kaser wrote many of them. Kaser is one of the authors of the IPCC report, and does not dispute the general theory of anthropogenic global warming or the validity of the IPCC report in general. He merely pointed out one factual error among thousands of pages. This article badly distorts reality. Lewis Page at TheRegister has a history of doing this, for example in his article "Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun" which mis-represented scientific research in such a way that the scientists who did the research made more or less the opposite claim that Page did.

If you're interested in a more in-depth explanation of this and a few other errors in the IPCC report, RealClimate has an excellent discussion titled "IPCC errors: facts and spin".

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/ipcc-errors-facts-and-spin/