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(UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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• What is Climate?
  We ask: what is climate? and how we experience the climate effects how we think about it.
• Climategate, what is going on?
  Global warming, climate change, greenhouse effect and climategate; how 'valid' is the climate science?

• Climate Council, represents who?
  The Climate Commission is being reformed as the Climate Council, we ask who do they represent and what is their funding model?
• Shale Oil in South Australia, problem or opportunity?
  Potentially massive amounts of shale oil exist in South Australia, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
• Extreme weather not related to Climate Change says IPCC
  In a rather surprising report from the IPCC they play down the link between extreme weather and Climate Change...
• Climatic Models incomplete - poor understanding of mid level clouds cited
  Clouds play a major role in the climate-change equation, but they are the least-understood variable in the sky, observes a Texas A&M University geoscientist, who says mid-level clouds are especially understudied.
• Indonesia to cut down rainforests for $1Bn climate aid
  Indonesia plans to class large areas of its remaining natural forests as "degraded" in order to cut them down and receive nearly $1bn of climate aid for replanting them with palm trees and biofuel crops.
• Climate change is not the long term problem, environmental degradation is.
  We propose that man-made climate change, as a risk to society as we know it, is less of a real risk than current environmental degradation and pollution.
• IPCC must reform, recommends IAC
  An independent review said the scientists who produce the periodic United Nations reports on climate change (IPCC) should be more open to alternative views, more transparent about their own possible conflicts of interest and more realistic in the reporting of the likelihood of climatic events.
• Call for tighter review of IPCC data
  Prof Jean Palutikof, who spent 5 years at the British Met Office preparing the UN report, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, admitted the existing system was flawed because "quite a lot" of information had not been peer-reviewed by independent scientists before publication.
• IPCC conclusions fail under legal cross examination
  A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fails to stand up to scrutiny.
• Time to comment on the IPCC
  The IPCC is awaiting your feedback, tell it as it is...

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