IPCC Citizen Audit

Findings of the Citizen Audit of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report April 14, 2010 report text by Donna Laframboise above graphic by Donna Laframboise 1 Table of Contents Main Findings page 3IPCC Report Card page 6Detailed Findings page 9Fairness, Quality Assurance & Minor page 13Data Adjustments How the IPCC Report Has Been page 15Advertised News Releases Cited by the IPCC page 17Report Discussion Papers Cited by the IPCC page 19Report Working Papers Cited by the IPCC page 24Report Press Release (for this project) page 29Final Note page 30 short URL for the online version of this report: TinyUrl.com/CitizenAudit 2Citizen Audit Main Findings released April 14, 2010 UN's Climate Bible Gets 21 'F's on Report Card  all 18,531 references cited in the 2007 IPCC report were examined  5,587are not peer-reviewed  IPCC chairman's claim that the report relies solely on peer-reviewed sources is not supported  each chapter was audited three times; the result most favorable to the IPCC was used  21 out of 44 chapters contain so few peer-reviewed references, they get an F  43 citizen auditors in 12 countries participated in this project  full report card here  detailed results here chapters % of chapters grade (out of 44) receiving this grade F 21 48 (59% & below) D 4 9 (60-69%) C 6 14 (70-79%) B 5 11 (80-89%) A 8 18 (90-100%) Table 1 BACKGROUND AND INTRO United Nations ...