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IPCC reviewer resigns from AGU saying: I will not renew my AGU membership
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IPCC reviewer resigns from AGU saying: I will not renew my AGU
membership
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Anthony Watts
Martin Hovland writes in with this statement. It seems that AGU
Position Statement keeps costing them members.
He writes:
Although I have been a long-time member of the American Geophysical
Union (AGU), I hereby refuse to pay my membership fees. The main
problem is the organization’s Position Statement on the purported
“Human impacts on Climate” This statement includes the following
statements: “During recent millennia of relatively stable climate,
civilization became established and populations have grown rapidly. In
the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change—an
additional global mean warming of 1°C above the last decade—is far
beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past
thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting
to it.
Warming greater than 2°C above 19th century levels is projected to be
disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing
widespread loss of biodiversity, and—if sustained over centuries—
melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea level
of several meters. If this 2°C warming is to be avoided, then our net
annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within
this century. With such projections, there are many sources of
scientific uncertainty, but none are known that could make the impact
of climate change inconsequential. Given the uncertainty in climate
projections, there can be surprises that may cause more dramatic
disruptions than anticipated from the most probable model
projections.”
As an active communicator in geophysics, spanning subjects ranging
from marine geology to climate science, and an expert reviewer for the
IPCC Working Group 1 on the up-coming Assessment Report 5 (my comments
have just been submitted to the organization), I can no longer bear to
support the AGU.
Martin Hovland
IPCC reviewer resigns from AGU saying: I will not renew my AGU
membership
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Anthony Watts
Martin Hovland writes in with this statement. It seems that AGU
Position Statement keeps costing them members.
He writes:
Although I have been a long-time member of the American Geophysical
Union (AGU), I hereby refuse to pay my membership fees. The main
problem is the organization’s Position Statement on the purported
“Human impacts on Climate” This statement includes the following
statements: “During recent millennia of relatively stable climate,
civilization became established and populations have grown rapidly. In
the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change—an
additional global mean warming of 1°C above the last decade—is far
beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past
thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting
to it.
Warming greater than 2°C above 19th century levels is projected to be
disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing
widespread loss of biodiversity, and—if sustained over centuries—
melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea level
of several meters. If this 2°C warming is to be avoided, then our net
annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within
this century. With such projections, there are many sources of
scientific uncertainty, but none are known that could make the impact
of climate change inconsequential. Given the uncertainty in climate
projections, there can be surprises that may cause more dramatic
disruptions than anticipated from the most probable model
projections.”
As an active communicator in geophysics, spanning subjects ranging
from marine geology to climate science, and an expert reviewer for the
IPCC Working Group 1 on the up-coming Assessment Report 5 (my comments
have just been submitted to the organization), I can no longer bear to
support the AGU.
Martin Hovland
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