Green Reveiwed Litrachur
Posted by Jeff Condon on January 30, 2010
This was sent by email to me from Climatequotes, apparently greenpeace has been a regular in IPCC reports for some time.
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From Climatequotes:
After hearing about Greenpeace being cited in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report, I went back and looked at the Third Assessment Report to see if they had been cited there are well. Turns out they were, at least four times. Three of them were from Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and one was from Working Group III: Mitigation. The first is in working group II: Impact, section 12.1.4. Climate Trends:
“There is some evidence of long-term variations in the Australasian region in storm frequency and tropical cyclones (Nicholls et al., 1996a; Radford et al., 1996; Hopkins and Holland, 1997; Leighton et al., 1997).”
Radford et al is referenced as:
Radford, D., R. Blong, A.M. d’Aubert, I. Kuhnel, and P. Nunn, 1996: Occurence of Tropical Cyclones in the Southwest Pacific Region 1920-1994. Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 35 pp.
They misspelled occurrence, not me. I can find this cited all over the Internet, but I cannot find the original. There were citations to support this claim other than Greenpeace. Onto the next, also in Working Group II, section 16.1.3.1. The Arctic:
“Comprehensive interviews by Gibson and Scullinger (1998) have revealed notable impacts on food sources and natural environments of native Alaskan communities.”
Jon von Briesen said
The force of the author’s denial, here: “They misspelled occurrence, not me.” is diminished by
his/her own errors. The word “occurrence,” treated as a word, needs quotation marks. And, it should read ” …, not I.”
A little “[sic]” would have sufficed.
Ian said
” …, not I.”
…which has been debunked, along with the other Latin-based “grammatical rules” of English such as never splitting infinitives. Address all further correspondence to: Pedantry Corner, Private Eye, etc., etc.
Wansbeck said
#1, I must object to your appalling colon abuse.
A ‘[sic]‘ bucket seems more appropriate.
Jeff Id said
I’m surprised that English masters can survive the horrors of punctuation and spelling at the Air Vent.
AndyL said
Ian,
It’s not a latin based rule.
The easiest way to see whether to use ‘me’ or ‘I’ is to simplify the sentence as if you were the only person involved.
So: “He gave it to John and me” – because “he gave it to me” is correct
“John and I went swimming” – because “I went swimming” is correct
“He misspelled it, not I” – because “me misspelled it” is obviously incorrect
boballab said
Jeff it gets better then that though. Forget Greenpeace and the WWF, lets use a master’s level dissertation and an article in a climbers magazine as proof that AGW is melting the ice int he Andes, Alps and in Africa:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html
PhilJourdan said
Like I said, a scandal a day. You dont destroy a bastille with one blow, but by a brick at a time.
Ian said
AndyL,
Look up “methinks” in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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ClimateQuoter said
Now even more dodgy citations. The WWF was cited with the CRU in AR3 multiple times:
http://climatequotes.com/2010/01/31/more-wwf-citations-found-in-ar3-three-alongside-cru/