The head of the United Nations' climate change panel Rajendra Pachauri, has defended the body before an academic council charged with reviewing its research methods after a string of challenges to its findings. (AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
Posted on 05/14/2010 3:22:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
THE HAGUE (AFP) – The head of the United Nations' climate change panel defended the body Friday before an academic council charged with reviewing its research methods after a string of challenges to its findings.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), admitted an error was made in warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, but said there was nevertheless some value in the finding.
"Alright, there was this error, but there is a whole lot of valid information and assessment related to the glaciers which we can only ignore at our own peril and the peril of generations yet to come," he told a public meeting in Amsterdam of the InterAcademy Council (IAC), webcast live.
"Even if the Himalayan glaciers do not melt (by 2035), this is what is happening to the glaciers around the world."
Melting glaciers, said Pachauri, have "already contributed around 28 percent of sea level rise since 1993.... This is something that should cause concern."
The IPCC, made up of several thousand scientists tasked with vetting scientific knowledge on climate change, has come under fire from several quarters over its 2007 report.
Its reputation was damaged by its warning over melting Himalayan glaciers, a claim that has been widely discredited and fuelled scepticism about climate change.
More recently, it has been criticised for a finding that a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17 percent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050.
Critics said this ignored the role of at least one billion tonnes of sediment carried by rivers into Bangladesh every year in countering sea level rises.
But Pachauri ascribed the silt argument to "non-peer reviewed research".
"You really can't take one single study like that into account," he told the review panel. ...
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The head of the United Nations' climate change panel Rajendra Pachauri, has defended the body before an academic council charged with reviewing its research methods after a string of challenges to its findings. (AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
Now there's a credible source for ya!!! ROTFL!
Sounds like a “fake but accurate” defense.
Where is the evidence of sea-level rise? Either it’s global, or it is not. And there is no record except around islands that are sinking or eroding - and that’s not “sea leve rise”.
Sorry, warmists everwhere - YOU ARE FOOLS AT BEST AND LIARS AT WORST.
How about telling him to get a haircut, shave and a shower?
Incopetent and a liar...Go Figure.
Raji! Raji! It makes me feel sick just lookin’ at you, and knowin’ what I know.
Ya wanna know about sea level changes? Read the following link. Make sure you get to the part about the enviroweenies tearing up the tree!
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
The end ... all the climate models predict the earth is surrounded by a CO2 blanket around the equator. The problem, research studies have found it not to be there. In a sane world that would be the end of the CO2 driven climate theory.
And now the heat allegedly trapped there has also gone missing.
End of science for the hoaxers, need new theory.
CRIME INC, it’s still trying to get those trillions.
Sure, if I wanted info on the world’s climate I’d consult with a railroad engineer.
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