Posted on 01/26/2010 9:52:07 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
At the center of the policy push is the IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. Mr. Pachauri has no formal education in climatology, yet was appointed in 2002 to lead arguably the world's most influential climatology panel. Since, he has stirred up much controversy, suggesting that people internationally
give up meat to fight climate change and supervising the publication of alarming climate change predictions.
However, Mr. Pachauri's days as IPCC Chairman may be nearing an end. Mr. Pachauri has been forced to retract an alarming publication in which he claimed Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035. Many in the general public and research community are calling for his resignation in the retraction's wake.
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UN IPCC: Shun Meat to Stop Climate Change
He needs something,...maybe more meat in his diet would help him:
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Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
From the first article:
Perhaps the more troublesome topic, however, is the report itself. The IPCC 2007 report contained both the questionable glacier reference and highly questionable conclusions about global warming creating a bevy of natural disasters. Before its recent retraction, the report was driving international climate legislation, including pending legislation in the U.S. that is estimated to leave Americans $9.4 trillion USD poorer.
Nobel Prize rescinded yet? (Or at least a memo from the Nobel Committee to the effect that, Well, If We Knew Then What We Know Now ...)
Perhaps he should take up the sitar and join the 70's oldies revival circuit.
From the BBC:
I will not go, says climate chief
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Rajendra Pachauri told BBC News: "I am not going to stand down, I am going to stand up."
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted that it had made a mistake in asserting that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.
Critics say the mistake has damaged the scientific credibility of the IPCC.
"I was re-elected by acclamation, essentially - I imagine - because everyone was satisfied with my performance on the fourth assessment report," Dr Pachauri said.
"I am now charged with producing the fifth assessment report, which I will do faithfully and to the best of my abilities."
Credibility concerns
Last week, IPCC vice-chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele admitted that the inclusion of the 2035 date in a key report was a mistake.
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 Dr Pachauri blamed "human error" for the mistake
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The date appeared in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (4AR), which read: "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world... the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high."
A number of scientists had recently disputed the date, after a row erupted in India late last year in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, which BBC News reported on 05 December.
Opposing factions in the Indian government gave radically different opinions of what was happening to Himalayan ice.
Dr Pachauri said the inclusion of the 2035 date in the 4AR, which was published in 2007, was "a case of human error", adding that it was unfortunate that it had happened.
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri will need to resign. He is a joke but at least he has a 2nd career as a GEICO advertisment.
Welp, so much for the “peer-reviewed” and “robust” garbage....
Wonder if the main man will man up and return his Nobel....
ROFL!
He and Gore are in this scam for the Money!
And now even the lower-level lefties at IPCC and Pachauri’s foundation are preparing to throw him to the (just) wolves, hoping that the scandal somehow limits itself to him alone.
Fat chance. All these greedy bastards are going down.
IPCC deputy says scientists are 'only human'
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Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Photo: STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS
The UN's climate science body is under fire after being forced to retract claims that the Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035.
However Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the IPCC, told the BBC it was simply a "human mistake".
"Aren't mistakes human? Even the IPCC is a human institution and I do not know of any human institution that does not make mistakes, so of course it is a regrettable incident that we published that wrong description of the Himalayan glacier," he said.
The scandal has led to the calls for the chairman of the science body Rajendra Pachauri to resign after he described those who criticised the claim as using "voodoo science".
But again Mr van Ypersele, professor of climatology and environmental sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain, said it was "only human" to use such language.
"I would personally not have used the voodoo science wording," he said. "I think humans can sometimes use words that are a bit too strong but it is certainly not a reason to ask for the resignation of a chairman who has done an excellent job. We are trying to do our best, we are going to reinforce the review procedures so the probability in the next report of such incidents happening is even lower. But to guarantee a zero fault product is probably not possible for any human enterprise."
The 2007 report, that included the Himalayan claim, is the basis for the current international debate on climate change and has led the developing countries to demand billions of pounds in compensation for the consequences of global warming.
It also included a section that has been criticised for including a report that linked climate change to an increase in natural disasters, although the IPCC claim this is just one conclusion in a "balanced" report.
The IPCC are now working on the 5th assessment report that will be finalised in 2014 and also hugely influence world leaders.
Thanks Ernest. This is a humiliation for those frauds, which is good, but I want them all in prison.
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The list of posts now held by Dr Pachauri as a result of his new-found world status goes on and on. He has become head of Yale University’s Climate and Energy Institute, which enjoys millions of dollars of US state and corporate funding. He is on the climate change advisory board of Deutsche Bank. He is Director of the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and was until recently an adviser to Toyota Motors. Recalling his origins as a railway engineer, he is even a policy adviser to SNCF, France’s state-owned railway company.
Meanwhile, back home in India, he serves on an array of influential government bodies, including the Economic Advisory Committee to the prime minister, holds various academic posts and has somehow found time in his busy life to publish 22 books.
Dr Pachauri never shrinks from giving the world frank advice on all matters relating to the menace of global warming. The latest edition of TERI News quotes him as telling the US Environmental Protection Agency that it must go ahead with regulating US carbon emissions without waiting for Congress to pass its cap and trade bill.
It reports how, in the days before Copenhagen, he called on the developing nations which had been historically responsible for the global warming crisis to make ‘concrete commitments’ to aiding developing countries such as India with funding and technology – while insisting that India could not agree to binding emissions targets. India, he said, must bargain for large-scale subsidies from the West for developing solar power, and Western funds must be made available for geo-engineering projects to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.
As a vegetarian Hindu, Dr Pachauri repeated his call for the world to eat less meat to cut down on methane emissions (as usual he made no mention of what was to be done about India’s 400 million sacred cows). He further called for a ban on serving ice in restaurants and for meters to be fitted to all hotel rooms, so that guests could be charged a carbon tax on their use of heating and air-conditioning.
Yea. You would think with all the money his lining his pockets with via. the scam, he could afford a few Double Macs or something. Well maybe not. He may be adherent to the sacred cow religion. Maybe all he can do is eat rice and turnip tops.
As a vegetarian Hindu, Dr Pachauri repeated his call for the world to eat less meat to cut down on methane emissions (as usual he made no mention of what was to be done about India’s 400 million sacred cows). He further called for a ban on serving ice in restaurants and for meters to be fitted to all hotel rooms, so that guests could be charged a carbon tax on their use of heating and air-conditioning.
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UGH as in UGLY!
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