More Global Warming Scandals Implicate IPCC Climate Scientists

Only days after the failed Copenhagen Global Warming Summit, yet a new scandal over the scientific accuracy of the UN IPCC 2007 climate report has emerged. Following the major data-manipulation scandals from the UN-tied research center at Britain’s East Anglia University late 2009, the picture emerges of one of the most massive scientific frauds of recent history.

Senior members of the UN climate project, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been forced to admit a major error in the 2007 IPCC UN report that triggered the recent global campaign for urgent measures to reduce “manmade emissions” of CO2.

The IPCC’s 2007 report stated, “glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world.” Given that this is the world’s highest mountain range and meltdown implies a massive flooding of India, China and the entire Asian region, it was a major scare “selling point” for the IPCC agenda. As well, the statement on the glacier melt in the 2007 IPCC report contains other serious errors such as the statement that “Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometers by the year 2035." There are only 33,000 square kilometers of glaciers in the Himalayas. And a table in the report says that between 1845 and 1965, the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840 meters. Then comes a math mistake: It says that's a rate of 135.2 meters a year, when it really is only 23.5 meters a year. Now scientists around the world are scouring the entire IPCC report for indications of similar lack of scientific rigor.

It emerges that the basis of the stark IPCC glacier meltdown statement of 2007 was not even a scientific study of melting data. Rather it was a reference to a newspaper article cited by a pro-global warming ecological advocacy group, WWF.

The original source of the IPCC statement, it turns out, appeared in a 1999 report in the British magazine, New Scientist that was cited in passing by WWF. The New Scientist author, Fred Pierce, wrote then, “The inclusion of this statement has angered many glaciologists, who regard it as unjustified. Vijay Raina, a leading Indian glaciologist, wrote in a paper published by the Indian Government in November that there is no sign of "abnormal" retreat in Himalayan glaciers. India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, accused the IPCC of being "alarmist." The IPCC's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, has hit back, denouncing the Indian government report as "voodoo science" lacking peer review. He adds that "we have a very clear idea of what is happening" in the Himalayas.”

The same Pachauri, co-awardee of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has recently been under attack for huge conflicts of interest related to his business interests that profit from the CO2 global warming agenda he promotes.

Pearce notes that the original claim made by Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, in a 1999 email interview with Pearce, namely that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035, never was repeated by Hasnain in any peer-reviewed scientific journal, and that Hasnain now says the remark was "speculative".

Despite that lack of scientific validation the 10-year-old claim ended up in the IPCC fourth assessment report published in 2007. Moreover the claim was extrapolated to include all glaciers in the Himalayas.

Since publication of the latest New Scientist article, the IPCC officially has been forced to issue the following statement: “the IPCC said the paragraph "refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly."

The IPCC adds, "The IPCC regrets the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance." But the statement calls for no action beyond stating a need for absolute adherence to IPCC quality control processes. "We reaffirm our strong commitment to ensuring this level of performance," the statement said.”

Rajendra K. Pachauri

He has become an icon for the LGBT community in India as a result of offering internships to younger members of the LGBT community in order to promote acceptance within the country.

He began his career with the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi.

He is a strict vegetarian, partly due to his beliefs as a Hindu, and partly because of the impact of meat-production on the environment.

He assumed his current responsibilities as the head of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute) in 1981, first as Director and, since April 2001, as Director-General. TERI does original work and provides professional support in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions, and corporate organizations worldwide.

In January 1999, Dr R K Pachauri was appointed as Director, Board of Directors of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (a Fortune 500 company) for a period of 3 years.

He did research at the World Bank in Washington DC for three months during 1990 and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Man, when the wheels come off, they come off in a most spectacular fashion, don’t they. This is a huge train wreck, as the whole premise for a brand-new form of taxation and “reform” go up in smoke and flame.

Carbon dioxide is not, and never was, a “pollutant”. Yet that is the data upon which they were going to hang their hats. Because of the very nature of carbon dioxide (it is a heavy gas, as compared to oxygen and nitrogen, and it dissolves readily in water), and the fact it is continuously taken up by living growing green plants, its concentration in the atmosphere will not ever get much above about 500 parts per million, Because plants grow so much more luxuriantly at that concentration, they soon reduce the atmospheric level to well below that figure. And surprise, surprise, that luxuriant growth is NOT confined to terrestrial plants, but occurs in submarine and surface waters as well.

With all this organic growth going on, there is the reverse, as plants die and decompose, of releasing back to the atmosphere and the oceanic stretches most if not all of the carbon dioxide taken up by the synthesis of free oxygen and various forms of carbohydrates. What little bit mankind contributes, through the burning of fossil fuel, is quickly absorbed and put in this never-ending cycle, and it does not make a blip on the average content of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The anthropogenic CO2 could all be collected, cooled, compressed, and injected into the earth as a supercritical liquid, where it proceeds to continue to carry on reactions with the various metellic elements, converting them to oxides and forming elemental carbon, the basis for coal and petroleum formation. As the oxygen in water and carbon dioxide is abstracted by the formation of oxides by these metallic elements, the conditions are right for the formation of hydrocarbons.

Petroleum and natural gas are being continuously formed, replacing the “depleted” wells, and in fact may be forming at a rate much greater than previously considered possible. There is the heat from the earth’s core to drive these reactions, and a huge supply of elemental silicon, the probable “metallic” element that takes up the majority of the oxygen released from the carbon dioxide and water.

The silicon dioxide is the substance we know variously as “granite” or “sand” depending on how much it has weathered.

You want significant and USEFUL climate change? Set up a series of nuclear power generation stations along the ocean shore, which produce LOTS of electricity, and the central atomic piles need to be cooled. Use the ocean water as the cooling medium, and as the water is evaporated off of the brine, mine the brine for the other elements. The evaporated water is collected, and is essentially pure as distilled water, which it is. This is used for industrial and agricultural purposes, and the discharge from these purposes may be used to turn thousands of square miles of desert or semi-desert into lush green forests and prairie lands, all of which are eagerly gulping in the carbon dioxide resulting from the accelerated pace of growth.

There is LOTS of room for intelligent application of “green” technology. But not the way it is now being applied. All the small minds can think of is the lock up and rationing of the existing pool of energy sources, when we could be using the technology we have RIGHT NOW to accelerate and expand on what is occurring naturally all the time, with no assistance from mankind at all.

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