End US War Machine: UN IPCC Climate Report has been sold as 'peer reviewed,' 16 citations, US EPA chief says only 'peer reviewed' is acceptable

Re: 2007 UN IPCC Climate Report: "How the IPCC Report Has Been Advertised," "click a quote to go to its source" [Ed. note: Some of the text below is barely visible, to see it clearly just go to the original title above.]

"People can have confidence in the IPCC's conclusions…Given that it is all on the basis of peer-reviewed literature." - Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman, June 2008

"The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature." - Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman, June 2007

"This is based on peer-reviewed literature. That’s the manner in which the IPCC functions. We don’t pick up a newspaper article and, based on that, come up with our findings." - Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman, June 2008 (click quote to go to YouTube video. Remarks begin at 1 minute, 15 seconds)

Rajendra Pachauri - We don't pick up a newspaper article and...come up with our findings sound bite Rajendra Pachauri sound bites

[regarding news articles in the report]

As IPCC Chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri recently stated: 'IPCC relies entirely on peer reviewed literature in carrying out its assessment...'" - US Environmental Protection Agency, December 2009 (bottom of PDF's page 7)

[Ed note: The above quote was from the US EPA in 2009. This is seen on the original document linked at top of this post. The EPA link however appears to be inactive as of 7/12. Following is a recent link to EPA chief Lisa Jackson saying she only accepts peer reviewed material:

6/11/12, "An Interview With the EPA's Lisa Jackson," Mother Jones, Rosenberg and Giller

Jackson: "All scientists should in my opinion take heed of the importance of the peer review process. Inside the Washington Beltway is very different than outside. Inside the Washington Beltway, I'm not sure whether facts always matter, and that's a sad thing for our country. But oftentimes EPA's work is peer-reviewed and then peer-reviewed again—and yet it will be challenged by some report that hasn't been peer-reviewed at all. There needs to be equivalence there—inside, for policymakers. That would be one thing I'd ask. More and more when people pull up some, um, interesting report, my first question is, who reviewed it? Where is the peer review? Because you would never allow me to submit something that wasn't peer-reviewed. And I think that's fair, and I think on both sides it should be that way—on the EPA side, or the government side, the public-sector side, and on those who might challenge it."...]

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"When asked if the discussion paper could be taken into consideration...[Pachauri] said, 'IPCC studies only peer-review science. Let someone publish the data in a decent credible publication. I am sure IPCC would then accept it, otherwise we can just throw it into the dustbin.'" - Times of India, November 2009 [previously said 2007 due to a typo]

"This is the key document on climate change, and from now on you can forget any others you may have read or seen or heard about. This is the one that matters. It is the tightly distilled, peer-reviewed research of several thousand scientists" - Irish Independent, November 2007

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"Make no mistake about how central the IPCC is to the global warming debate. The IPCC's reports are why ours and other governments...are calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions...[those] attacking the IPCC...have never researched nor published any climate science in peer-reviewed journals - and peer review is how science works." - ABC News, Australia, November 2009

"The IPCC bases its work on papers that have been published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature." - The Economist, December 2009

"The IPCC does not do scientific research itself, but builds its assessments on peer-reviewed and published scientific papers. " - ABC News, Australia, February 2007

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"The IPCC relies on the peer-reviewed scientific literature for its conclusions, which must meet the rigorous requirements of the scientific method..." - Joe Romm, Salon.com, February 2008

"The first phase [of the IPCC report] will be released in Paris next week...The report will draw on already published peer-reviewed science." - CBC News, Canada, January 2007

"Without a strong, peer-reviewed science base [provided by the IPCC]...the case for action on climate change would not be as unequivocal as it is today." - Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General, August 2008

"[The IPCC report] used only peer reviewed published science..." - Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein, February 2007. This story appeared in newspapers large and small in countries that included Russia, Canada, and the United States.