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A bit of fraud - the Nobel Peace Prize

In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Al Gore and the body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC subsequently issued suitable-for-framing letters to its various members thanking them for contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC. People are starting to claim that prize for themselves despite a strongly worded memo from the IPCC itself. Specifically:

The prize was awarded to the IPCC as an organization, and not to any individual associated with the IPCC. Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner. It would be correct to describe a scientist who was involved with AR4 or earlier IPCC reports in this way: �X contributed to the reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.�

The IPCC leadership agreed to present personalized certificates �for contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC� to scientists that had contributed substantially to the preparation of IPCC reports. Such certificates, which feature a copy of the Nobel Peace Prize diploma, were sent to coordinating lead authors, lead authors, review editors, Bureau members, staff of the technical support units and staff of the secretariat from the IPCC�s inception in 1988 until the award of the prize in 2007.

Dr. Woodrow Clark needs to reign himself in and not represent himself as something he is most assuredly not. There is an Energy Conference in Toronto, Canada in April and their keynote speaker? From the All-Energy Canada website:

Nobel Peace Prize winner is keynote speaker for All-Energy Canada Conference
The All-Energy Canada organizers are delighted to announce that Dr. Woodrow (Woody) W. Clark II will make a strategic Canadian appearance as the Keynote speaker on April 9th, 2014.

Canadian investigative journalist Donna Laframboise has the links to show that this is not just an isolated case of misrepresentation and fraud. Visit her site at No Frakking Consensus. Oh, and by the say, Dr. Clark is an economist and not a climate scientist. Just sayin' UPDATE: Donna has another post with some more details. Turns out he is claiming to have been a big fish when, in reality, he was a co-author for one article in one chapter of a minor IPCC report and he served as a review editor in a second chapter of the same minor report. His name turns up nowhere else in the IPCC. Posted by DaveH at March 2, 2014 1:34 PM