Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/22/2010 9:29:14 PM PST by pissant
Last November, U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri delivered a blistering rebuke to India's environment minister for casting doubt on the notion that global warming was causing the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers.
"We have a very clear idea of what is happening," the chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told the Guardian newspaper. "I don't know why the minister is supporting this unsubstantiated research. It is an extremely arrogant statement."
Then again, when it comes to unsubstantiated research it's hard to beat the IPCC, whose 2007 report insisted that the glaciers—which feed the rivers that in turn feed much of South Asia—were very likely to nearly disappear by the year 2035. "The receding and thinning of Himalayan glaciers," it wrote in its supposedly definitive report, "can be attributed primarily to the [sic] global warming due to increase in anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases."
It turns out that this widely publicized prediction was taken from a 2005 report from the World Wildlife Fund, which based it on a comment by Indian glacier expert Syed Hasnain from 1999. Mr. Hasnian now says he was "misquoted." Even more interesting is that the IPCC was warned in 2006 by leading glaciologist Georg Kaser that the 2035 forecast was baseless. "This number is not just a little bit wrong, but far out of any order of magnitude," Mr. Kaser told the Agence France-Presse. "It is so wrong that it is not even worth discussing."
On Wednesday, the IPCC got around to acknowledging that the claim was "poorly substantiated," though Mr. Pachauri also suggested it amounted to little more than a scientific typo. Yet the error is of a piece with other glib, and now debunked, global warming alarms.
Among them: that 1998 was the warmest year on record in the United
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rosie hughes says:
19 January 2010 at 8:04 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, all this fixation on get-it-right, got-it-wrong is obscuring the real issue: the truth is what we define it to be, and the truth is that mankind is a scourge on the planet. The sooner we can limit the right to breed, the sooner the planet will recover. If glacier data is a little incorrect but helps that effort, then the data is true in all but a very narrow and clinical scientific sense.
Common people don’t really understand science. But they understand not having enough to eat and not being able to sit down on a too-crowded subway. if we can educate people not to reproduce there will be many seats and the fewer people will be happier. Indeed, as the capitalist economies of scale are reduced, the [s]atisfaction from making your own clothes and embracing a low-carbon vegan diet will be so intense, reproduction will come to be seen in the same category as child abuse.
I yearn for the day when i might not have been born!
Zoinks!
eh - it’s gotta be satire...
A clearer conflict of interest cannot be found, and the arrogance and chutzpah displayed by this criminal cannot be overstated.
The fraud and corruption equals or may dwarf the previous UN corruption champ, the "food for oil" grand larceny.
Why isn't this crook in jail yet?
As do the rest of us, certainly.
Rule by the insane is not an attractive option for current and future humanity.
Even Malthus appears sane and well informed, compared to these lunatics.
This spoiled half wit should go to a Muslim country and tell them not to reproduce so much and limit children......That would be rich! And hazardous to his/her health
People with that attitude need to just off themselves for the betterment of Mankind.
"We have a very clear idea of what is happening," the chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told the Guardian newspaper. "I don't know why the minister is supporting this unsubstantiated research. It is an extremely arrogant statement." Then again, when it comes to unsubstantiated research it's hard to beat the IPCC, whose 2007 report insisted that the glaciers... were very likely to nearly disappear by the year 2035... It turns out that this widely publicized prediction was taken from a 2005 report from the World Wildlife Fund, which based it on a comment by Indian glacier expert Syed Hasnain from 1999. Mr. Hasnian now says he was "misquoted." Even more interesting is that the IPCC was warned in 2006 by leading glaciologist Georg Kaser that the 2035 forecast was baseless. "This number is not just a little bit wrong, but far out of any order of magnitude," Mr. Kaser told the Agence France-Presse. "It is so wrong that it is not even worth discussing."Well said, pissant. Thanks Ernest for the ping.
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The funny thing is that this IPCCC guy is an engineer, a railroad engineer.
How ironic he says what skeptics have been saying all along about the IPCC.
IPCC is now in circle the wagons mode. Defending themselves at all costs.
Skip the last smoke. Go straight to the bullet. Smoking is bad for your health.
I yearn for that day, too.
He is a choo-choo driver?
He made them.
It is evident that scientists are unwilling or unable to police their own. Which is a damn shame.
IPCC continues to show it’s contempt for Science. Soot has been recognized as the primary (or at least equal) contributor to the melting of Himalayan glaciers for some time now.
New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot’s Role in Himalayan Warming
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091214173646.htm
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