Counter-sceptics

In Bloomberg yesterday, it was announced that governments are asking the IPCC to spend more time on explaining away the pause in the imminent Fifth Assessment Report:

They’re requesting that more details on the so-called “hiatus” be included in a key document set to be debated at a UN conference next month that will summarize the latest scientific conclusions on climate change.

And why do they want this to happen? One suggestion for the reason why comes from Vivian Bob Ward:

Including more information on the hiatus will help officials counter arguments that the slowing pace of global warming in recent years is a sign that the long-term trend may be discounted, according to Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

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Ward's murky past

From David Rose's Twitter feed we learn the hilarious news that Bob Ward used to be a punk rocker. Ward had been trying to head off any publicity for Judith Curry's recent revelations about attribution of global warming and in response Rose tweeted this:

I'm on holiday and not working on anything, you barmy, obsessive weirdo. Okay?

Rude, but it could have been worse. I guess the truth sometimes hurts. But then Rose went on to add this delectable snippet:

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