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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 132. 132

The TAR said that since the industrial revolution, the build-up of human-caused greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has had a warming effect of only 2.4 W/sq m. [Richard Courtney (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 49-18)] SPM- A 10:1 10:1 Replace "greenhouse gas forcing" with "increases in human population, Rejected, see chapter 3 McKitrick & Michaels has 864 4 4 prosperity, energy usage and land-use changes".

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 110. 110

has been carefully described. See ch 3 figure on heavy [Richard Courtney (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 49-16)] precip for distribution of the changes SPM- A 8:49 8:50 This sentence is too vague; does it apply to convective precipitation, to Chapters note that the definition of heavy precip is 739 monsoons?

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 185. 185

Hence, the actual warming of recent decades not known (but - on the basis of the radiosonde and MSU data - it seems most likely to have been less than 0.1 degrees C per decade ) and, therefore, “agreement with observations” is meaningless. [Richard Courtney (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 49-32)] SPM- A 13:1 13:1 Don't like the wording, or I don't know what it means.

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 98. 98

Detailed discussion in chapter. [Joanna House (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 109-42)] SPM- A 8:3 8:3 State over which period the loss of land ice occurred Text has been edited 634 [Rolf Müller (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 181-6)] SPM- A 8:3 "land ice" - what is this?

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 152. 152

Hence, it is invalid to attribute any causes - anthropogenic or otherwise - to “the observed warming of northern hemisphere over the last 50 years” [Richard Courtney (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 49-25)] SPM- A 11:3 11:3 After the inclusion of the new chapeau (last comment) delete the text in line 32 Text has been clarified 998 2 5 to 35 completely.

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Papers; IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Papers: Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, 2005-2007; Expert and Government Review Comments on the Second-Order Draft, Summary for Policymakers Comments w/ Responses. ESPP IPCCAR4WG1. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. page 31. 31

Stomata data do not suffer from these problems and indicate that the recent rates of change to atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide have repeatedly occurred in recent millennia and during transition from the last ice age. [Richard Courtney (Reviewer’s comment ID #: 49-3)] SPM- A 3:30 3:30 Add at beginning "Most of the".