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Imperial College professor Friederike Otto, who is also a climate crisis activist, has been selected to be the coordinating lead author on the next IPCC assessment report on climate change for the chapter on extreme weather events.
Prof. Otto is also the founder and head of World Weather Attribution, which monitors extreme weather events to assess the influence of human-induced climate change and is funded by global foundations that fund most of the climate crisis agenda.
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The following is paraphrased, with added context, from the article ‘UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts’ written by Roger Pielke Jr. and published by the New York Post.
Roger Pielke Jr. is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (“AEI”), where he focuses on science and technology policy, climate policy, energy policy, extreme events and disasters, the politicisation of science, governmental science advice and sports governance.
The IPCC Abandons Science And Hires Climate Change Zealots Who Damn The Facts
The politicisation of expert roles has become a significant issue, with politicians often selecting experts based on their political views rather than their willingness to provide unbiased information.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”), a United Nations organisation responsible for assessing climate science, has traditionally been committed to providing accurate and unbiased information, Pielke says. But its recent selection of authors for its seventh assessment report has raised concerns that it may be abandoning its commitment to scientific rigour.
One of its most important chapters [of the IPCC report] is on extreme weather events – how they may have changed over time, and understanding the reasons for any identified changes.
Much to its credit, despite media reports that breathlessly hype every hurricane, flood, and tornado as being worsened by climate change, the IPCC has for decades called things straight.
People are often surprised to learn that the most recent IPCC report did not detect increasing trends in the incidence of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or drought. The IPCC did find increases in heat waves (and decreases in frigid outbreaks), heavy precipitation (in some locations), soil moisture deficits, and fire weather.
Because the IPCC has consistently failed to establish strong connections between greenhouse gas emissions and most types of extreme weather, a cottage industry of promotional studies has developed in its place.
“Extreme event attribution” was invented to circumvent the normal process of scientific peer review in order to have media impact and to support litigation against fossil fuel companies.
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts, New York Post, 22 August 2025
Eleven researchers from Imperial College London have been selected as authors of the IPCC’s Assessment Report 7 (AR7), the highest number for any institution. One of them is Friederike Otto, a Professor in Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy, and the co-founder and head of World Weather Attribution (“WWA”).
WWA is an international research collaboration which conducts rapid, real-time analysis of extreme weather events to assess the influence of human-induced climate change. As well as Imperial College, participating institutions include the University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement, the University of Princeton, the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre.
“Through extensive media engagement – including The Guardian, the Daily Mail, The Times, Scientific American, CBS, BBC and many more – WWA has helped to change the global conversation around climate change,” according to Oxford University’s Climate Research Network.
Prof. Otto’s organisation is funded by the Grantham Foundation, the Bezos Earth Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.
The Grantham Foundation and Bezos Earth Foundation are two of the 27 global foundations funding the ClimateWorks Foundation. Earlier this year, ClimateWorks removed the list of its funders from its website, but you can find an archive of it HERE.
The Grantham Foundation and ClimateWorks are among the 24 funders of the European Climate Foundation. Other funders include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Chris Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.
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AR7 will be the third IPCC assessment report for Prof. Otto but this time she will be playing a leading role. She will be the coordinating lead author of AR7’s chapter on extreme weather. As such, Otto boasts, she will have significant influence over the chapter’s structure and focus. And Prof. Otto is a climate crisis activist. In a new book, ‘Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change’, Otto argues that racism, colonialism and sexism are the root causes of global warming.
So, with her inherent biases and funding at stake, her IPCC appointment is a concern. Scientific assessments are supposed to reflect the underlying peer-reviewed literature, not the inclinations of its lead authors.
But it gets worse. Otto is joined by two other lead authors and 17 other authors. Of these 20, nine focus their work on “extreme event attribution.”
The selection of authors for the IPCC’s chapter on extreme weather events has created tensions between the IPCC’s traditional approach, which focuses on detecting long-term changes in weather phenomena and connecting them to particular causes, and the approach of “extreme event attribution,” which seeks to establish connections between climate change and specific weather events.
This tension was seen in the contrast between a peer-reviewed study and the conclusions drawn by Prof Otto’s WWA. As Pielke explained:
A peer-reviewed climate modelling study of flooding in Pakistan concluded: “Understanding how climate change affects monsoon regions in South Asia is not straightforward.”
In contrast, for Otto’s WWA, establishing a connection between climate change and Pakistan’s floods is easy: “Every tenth of a degree of warming will lead to heavier monsoon rainfall, highlighting why a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is so urgent.”
By putting WWA and its fellow travellers in charge of the IPCC’s chapter on extreme events, the IPCC is signalling that media hits, climate litigation and energy advocacy trump rigorous science.
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts, New York Post, 22 August 2025
Featured image: Friederike Otto. Source: Deutschland
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