Donna Laframboise is doing the work “science” journalists won’t do;
Although we all know that weather is not climate, the IPCC seems confused on this point when it discusses the 2003 European heat wave. In a report that’s supposed to focus on the impacts of long term climate change, the IPCC thinks it’s worth mentioning that “Wine production in Europe was the lowest in 10 years” in 2003. The evidence for such a claim? A press release issued by a lobby group for European farmers:
COPA COGECA, 2003a: Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the European Union General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union, CDP 03 61 1, Press release, Brussels. [IPCC reference listed here]
It’s a similar story for the IPCC’s claim that, also in 2003, “Forage production was reduced on average by 30% in France and hay and silage stocks for winter were partly used during the summer.” According to an IPCC supplementary document (PDF – see p. 4), the above press release is actually the source of the hay claim, while the wine production data comes from a second press release that is cited thus: (see p. 6 of the above PDF)
COPA COGECA, 2003b: Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the European Union General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union, CDP 03 61 1, Press release, Brussels.
Since the European farmers’ organization website only has press releases from the last three years online, if we want to sort out which of these 2003 documents actually says what, we’ll need to submit a special request.
That’s just a snippet.
A bit of searching suggests that while the IPCC may have perfected the art of “science by press release”, they didn’t invent it.
h/t Jay Currie
Maybe the IPCC just Fifed up the report using information they Fisked from the WWF?
Hats off to Donna. She seems to be absolutely tireless in her efforts to shine light on the AGW cockroaches.
And, are we supposed to doubt press releases from farm organizations?
Yes?
Even In Canada? In Ontario too?
Nice work Donna.
The IPCC is creating propaganda.
According to decanters.com, “….2003 harvest, which was greatly affected by summer heat waves.”
http://www.decanter.com/news/136682.html?aff=rss
In the same article, from 2007 it says “….Officials say that further bad weather (in 2007) could continue to reduce the crop, threatening to reduce overall yields to 2003 levels.”
Here http://www.brocku.ca/fcrc/pages/research_database.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brocku.ca%2Fccovi%2Fresearch%2Fapp%2Fpublic%2Flist
“A 500 year pheno-climatological view on the 2003 heat wave in Europe assessed by grape harvest dates.”
Heat wave happens.
Donna Laframboise is doing the work “science” journalists won’t do
The scare quotes should be around journalist.
“Although we all know that weather is not climate, the IPCC seems confused on this point when it discusses the 2003 European heat wave.”
~Donna Laframboise
The IPCC isn’t confused on the point.
The mandate of the IPCC is to sell the idea that anthropogenic induced CO2 is causing Global Warming/aka Climate Change.
That is why it is called the ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’.
It is time that Donna Laframboise and other recognized that fact and called a spade a spade.
(pleasing your enemies or even pretending they aren’t enemies doesn’t turn them into friends)
– this just gets worse and worse.
No wonder the LSM is like a crack addict with the glo-ball warming information; just write/say what your ICPP high priestess’s tell you to, don’t ask questions, don’t dare investigate, never research on your own, just collect pay, go home early and everything will be nice for you and yours.
Just found out of someone we know bought into these ‘ethical/green’ stocks that tanked but they’re locked in for two more years for reasons not made clear to me and I didn’t want to pry too much. They didn’t seem very happy about it at all.