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Whitewash Panel to “Investigate” UN
Jul 23rd
via Th!nkAboutIt
July 20, 2010
After Climategate and Glaciergate the UN (Mr. Ban Ki-Moon) and IPCC (R.Pachauri) have selected, who should investigate them. I wonder who Al Capone would have appointed to investigate him, if he had the chance, and what the results would have been? Probably similar.
Ban and Rajendra chose the InterAcademy Council and the InterAcademy Council established a 12 member investigation panel. The investigating panel is an interesting bunch of fellas. We have already heard rumours about some of them. This is probably the first attempt to asseses them all.
The list looks like they all met at some stinking rich UN reception with plenty of caviar and expensive vintage wine. All of them are CEOs or top managers. The nobility. I did not know, that being an independent and unbiased investigator requires one to be a VIP top manager?
Pachauri refuses to step down
Mar 18th
Pachauri
via Reuters
March 16, 2010
Chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), R K Pachauri, said he would not resign for making claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by the year 2035, which he termed as “one mistake”.
Some climate researchers have criticized the IPCC in recent days for over-stating the speed of shrinking of Himalayan glaciers, whose seasonal thaw helps to supply water to many nations including India and China.
The New Climate Change Scandal
Jan 20th
THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL
via Express.co.uk
January 18, 2010
FRESH doubts were cast over controversial global warming theories yesterday after a major climate change argument was discredited.
The International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed up by research.
It was also revealed that the IPCC’s controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, described as “the world’s top climate scientist”, is a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics and no formal climate science qualifications.
Dr Pachauri was yesterday accused of a conflict of interest after it emerged he has a network of business interests that attract millions of pounds in funding thanks to IPCC policies. One of them, The Energy Research Institute, has a London office and is set to receive up to £10million from British taxpayers over the next five years in the form of grants from the Department for International Development.
Dr Pachauri denies any conflict of interest arising from his various roles.
The IPCC shares the blame for Climategate
Dec 8th
From GREENIE WATCH
December 7, 2009
An email from Madhav Khandekar [mkhandekar@rogers.com] below. (Khandekar was an expert reviewer for the IPCC 2007 Climate Change report)
Does the IPCC share some responsibility in this climategate? Most cetainly it does.
The problem of access to full and unprocessed raw temperature data from around the world has NOT developed over just last few weeks. It has been brewing for long, perhaps for months and years. Several scientists and professionals, not directly connected with climate science were denied access to the data for no valid reasons. Why did the IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri NOT intervene at the time and made sure that the basic raw data must be made available to anyone and every one? Does one have to hold a Ph D degree in atmospheric science or meteorology to get access to the data?
The CRU has defended its policy of NOT sharing data to anyone on grounds of “growing cost of servicing so many requests!” This is nonsense! The IPCC , a UN Body is supported by funding from all member countries and as such a person of any nationality can and must have full access to the data.
If the IPCC Chair had intervened long ago and made arrangements to transfer adequate funds from its overall budget to the CRU, we would not be in this sordid mess by now. The whole science of global warming & climate change rests with accurate determination of temperature trends and its independent verification by other scientists not necessarily connected with IPCC.
The IPCC Chair seems to have completely forgotten the basic tenet of weather & climate science, namely independent assessment of weather data NOT from within BUT from without. The IPCC Chair has dropped the ball on mean temperature calculation! it is a sad state of affairs for climate science!
Al Jazeera English – UN to investigate climate email row
Dec 7th
Al Jazeera English
December 4, 2009
The United Nations is to conduct an investigation into emails leaked from a leading British climate science centre which appeared to show some of the world’s leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others’ work.
The University of East Anglia has defended the integrity of the science published by its Climatic Research Unit and its researchers, but said on Thursday that it would also check whether some of the data had been fudged.
Those who argue against the influence of man-made climate change have seized on the correspondence to argue that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence about global warming.
In an interview with BBC radio, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the issue raised by the emails was serious and said “we will look into it in detail”.
Pauchauri said: “We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it … we certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet.”
via Al Jazeera English – Europe – UN to investigate climate email row.
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