Soren wrote on Apr 12
th, 2012 at 9:40pm:
Anything by anyone who is not a government or intergovernmental agency? Have you got anything not IPCC?
Well, you'd have to ask the question as to who would fund research in climatology. A great deal of research of this nature is funded by governments because it's of national and international significance. Maybe I'm reading this wrongly, but are you implying that anything that is government funded is somehow untrustworthy? (and I presume that you'd include the Icelandic government or the Danish government). The question arises - if you studied philosophy at a public university (hypothetically speaking), how could you believe anything they told you? Is there one version of information that's "world government" sponsored and an entirely separate body of privately sponsored academia that is diametrically opposed to this?
Large Insurance companies have a considerable interest in long term climate trends. I understand that a lot of the studies relating to the frequency of catastrophic events come from insurance companies as opposed to government agencies.
The chart below was provided by CGU Insurance Ltd, a division of Insurance Australia Group, as part of its submission to a federal parliamentary committee investigating skyrocketing residential strata title insurance in northern Australia.
By the way, many of the researchers who contribute to the IPCC reports don't actually work for governments or government organisations. Although public universities tend to dominate because of their numbers, many private universities, such as Bond University in Australia are also involved in climate research.