It also requires a complete failure of logic to say that he allegedly stated humans cannot change the climate when all he said was that it also changed without them.
No, he stated only natural factors can be the cause. That means he is stating humans can not be the cause. So, another major logic failure on your part.
Part of your side is screaming that global warming doesn't exist, and part is screaming that the current rapid global warming is natural. You really should all get together and settle on a single story. When your stories contradict each other, your side looks even more ridiculous.
Which particular conspiracy theory do you embrace? Are you on the "Global warming is a fraud!" side, the "Global warming is natural!" side, or the "Global warming is real, and humans cause it, but it's beneficial!" side?
Look who is blabbering "conspiracy theory" again,... as always the last line of defense a title of an old Hollywood Movie, how original ! Is that still what the social media groupies are supposed to use? Maybe you should update it so you don`t sound like a total parrot while using a cat avatar.
These dimwits aren`t smart enough to pull off a conspiracy. How "smart" could they be if the crap they publish comes from "lead authors" like this :
No wonder "denialists" are laughing their heads off when people like you claim this kind bullshit is a science
The Strange Case of Sari Kovats
Two weeks ago I
blogged about how difficult it was to confirm the date in which Sari Kovats, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), had received her PhD. In the interim, there have been a number of developments.
Readers from three continents wrote to ask if I was certain she actually has a PhD. There is no mention of her thesis on her
academic bio page at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. A search of the British Library’s
online theses database draws a blank. So does
a search of theses at the University of London (with which the School of Hygiene is affiliated) although theses dating back to 1716 are recorded there.
More than one correspondent speculated that perhaps Kovats had received what is known as a “mercy PhD.” I’d never heard of this before, but apparently some schools eventually abandon all hope that certain students will complete their thesis and award them a doctorate anyway.
I am pleased, therefore, to report that Kovats did, indeed, receive her PhD in June 2010. She sent me a pleasant e-mail to this effect and further consented to the school confirming this information. A week after my previous blog post, I received an official document from her school’s records department.
According to the document the school produced, Kovats was born in 1969 and became a part-time doctoral student in 2001. In an e-mail to her I mentioned that the
public record indicates her first paper was published in 1997. She did not dispute this.
In 1994, Kovats was one of only 21 people in the entire world selected to work on
the first IPCC chapter that examined how climate change might affect human health. She was 25 years old. Her first academic paper wouldn’t be published for another three years.
It would be six years before she’d even begin her doctoral studies and 16 years before she’d graduate.
Academically speaking, Kovats was invisible back in 1994. That anyone connected to the IPCC could have considered her a scientific expert is astonishing.
I’m sorry to say that that was just the beginning. When it came time to write the next version of the climate bible, Kovats received a promotion.
She was selected to be a lead author, again for the health chapter – despite the fact that her doctoral studies wouldn’t begin until the year the IPCC report was published.
What do we suppose happened with the next edition of the climate bible – the one that appeared in 2007, still three full years before Kovats earned her doctorate?
Was she selected once again to be a health chapter lead author? You betcha.
But by then the IPCC, in its wisdom, had decided she was a scientific expert in other areas, as well. Kovats served as a contributing author for three additional chapters in Working Group 2:
- Chapter 1 – Assessment of Observed Changes and Responses in Natural and Managed Systems
- Chapter 6 – Coastal Systems and Low-lying Areas
- Chapter 12 – Europe
She was also an IPCC
expert reviewer.
There’s no mystery as to why it took Kovats a decade to write her thesis. She’s had the equivalent of a full-time job just writing IPCC reports. As it turns out, the main assessments aren’t the only documents with which she has been involved.
The IPCC finds Kovats so enchanting it
recruited her as an author for one of its smaller reports, published in 2008, about
climate change and water. Soon after that, she was one of only eight members of the “core writing team” for a 2009
Good Practice Guidance Paper. The executive summary of that paper begins:
The reliable detection and attribution of changes in climate, and their effects, is fundamental to our understanding of the scientific basis of climate change…This paper…is intended as a guide for future IPCC Lead Authors. [bold added]
We’re told the IPCC is a serious and rigorous body. We’re told its reports are the gold-standard and that it is comprised of the world’s top experts. We’re told we should trust the IPCC’s conclusions because of these facts. And then we discover that a woman who still hadn’t earned her own doctorate was recruited by the IPCC to write guidelines for other authors.
(In true IPCC tradition, a majority – 8 of 15 – of the papers appearing in the bibliography of the
guidance paper were written by none other than the authors of the guidance themselves. But never mind.)
June 2010 was a memorable month for Kovats. Not only did she finally complete her PhD, but the IPCC announced the authors of the forthcoming version of the climate bible, expected in 2013. Quelle surprise, Kovats has received another promotion. This time she isn’t merely a lead author, she’s a coordinating lead author – the most senior of IPCC author roles. (see page 17 of this
27-page PDF).
Some conspiracy, fools leading fools that`s all it comes down to