On the CCSP revised Global Climate Change Impacts in the US report

Here We Go Again, More Cherry Picking by the CCSP. By Roger Pielke, Jr
Prometheus, February 2nd, 2009

Excerpts:

The CCSP revised and re-released Synthesis Report is out. I have not had a chance to look at thoroughly, but my first look does not leave me impressed. In fact, I am once again amazed at the brazen and willful misrepresentation of an area of climate change that I have some expertise in. The selective presentation of research on disasters and climate change by various assessment bodies leaves me convinced that such selectivity is a matter of choice and not simply incompetence. Such behavior damages the credibility of the entire climate science enterprise. Read on for the details of this latest and now common misrepresentation of the state of science on disasters and climate change.

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But wait there is more. The CCSP itself reported no climatological basis for increasing economic losses in the United States in its report on extremes.

The bottom line is that the CCSP report refuses to acknowledge the range of legitimate scientific discussion on the subject of disasters and climate change. It selectively cites research that supports conclusions that it would like to reach, and dismisses and ignores that which is inconvenient. This is not how assessments should be done. How can anyone trust the climate science community as long as such shenanigans are allowed to take place?