Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/24/2010 5:03:27 PM PST by ricks_place
The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 - an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report.
Since then, however, The Sunday Times has discovered that the same bogus claim has been cited in grant applications for TERI.
One of them, announced earlier this month just before the scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.
An abstract of the grant application published on Carnegie's website said: "The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
AGW. It’s all about the money.
“Glaciergate” would not be happening if it wasn’t for India’s Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, to take on this canard and stick to his guns (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/indias-environment-minister-under-fire-over-glaciers-1817968.html). We owe him a debt of gratitude.
It’s been pointed out by others that virtually all of these climate-kleptos could be sent to the stripey-hole for misuse of government funds.
(Rajendra) Pachauri likened the explanations to "climate change deniers and school boy science".
Pachauri is a complete fraud and his deceit destroyed a great deal of productive economic activity, and would have truly destroyed the world economy.
Global Warming on Free Republic
The extent of the global conspiracy to get control of our money and even our lives is breathtaking. And yes, I do use the word conspriacy, because that is what it was. And is. It included not just the nutty Al Gore, and not just the loony Barbara Boxer, but John McCain, Hillary, Kit Bond from my own state, Lamar Alexander, all of those who insist we must address “climate change”, as if mere humans have control of the climate.
Kit Bond, by the way, will retire this year to his home in Maryland. Not Missouri.
These people need to pay back the money or go to jail......or both.
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