Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/09/2010 3:49:27 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.
But Dr. Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are now under intense scrutiny, facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right-leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists. Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, called for Dr. Pachauri’s resignation last week.
Critics, writing in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere, have accused Dr. Pachauri of profiting from his work as an adviser to businesses, including Deutsche Bank and Pegasus Capital Advisors, a New York investment firm — a claim he denies.
They have also unearthed and publicized problems with the intergovernmental panel’s landmark 2007 report on climate change, which concluded that the planet was warming and that humans were likely to blame.
The report, they contend, misrepresents the state of scientific knowledge about diverse topics — including the rate of melting of Himalayan glaciers and the rise in severe storms — in a way that exaggerates the evidence for climate change.
With a global climate treaty under negotiation and legislation pending in the United States, the climate panel has found itself in the political cross hairs, its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The panel is charged by the United Nations with reviewing research to create periodic reports on climate risks, documents that are often used by governments to guide decisions, and its every conclusion is being dissected under a microscope.
Several of the recent accusations have proved to be half-truths:
The Times must be concerned...
How about his own country which has virtually declared climate change hysteria to be a scam?
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For a man who only made $49,000, he sure lives in a big mansion in New Delhi.
His long stint with the Gov owned railways in India probably supplied a lot of money for his”retirement fund”.
The NYT overlooks these facts and gives him a pass on his conflict of interest and accumulated wealth.
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The accusations of errors in the panel’s report — most originating from two right-leaning British papers, The Sunday Telegraph and The Times of London — have sullied the group’s reputation. They follow a controversy that erupted late last year over e-mail messages and documents released without authorization from a climate research center in Britain.
California Politicians haven’t heard about it yet.
ClimateGate has been an international scandal since November...NY Times’ readers are only first learning of it in today’s NY Times.
Just as the NY Times spiked the news of Senator Kerry’s lies of Vietnam combat (Christmas in Cambodia!), only to find Kerry Swiftboated out of White House contention...so too has the NY Times attempted to spike the ClimateGate story.
The NY Times has a long, sordid History of spiking news that it doesn’t like, such as knowing about Monica Lewinsky yet not reporting Clinton’s affair, knowing of Stalin’s mass murders of Ukrainians yet not publicizing the carnage, knowing of Dan Rather’s falsehoods of Bush’s National Guard service, etc.
However, this puts the NYTimes behind the curve. They haven’t been able to spin ClimateGate because they haven’t allowed anyone in the paper to comment on the story.
And thusly, the NYTimes will lose yet again.
See post #9.
I am typing as I listen to the KFI show commenting about the LA Times reporting...as the English papers seem to have grown a spine. their words.
apinning should be spinning...
It’s interesting to watch the NYT tiptoe around the obvious. The fact is that the Himalayan glaciers thing was a complete crock and any reasonable person can see it. It’s not just a “some critics are saying” kind of thing. In fact it wouldn’t be terribly improper for the scientists responsible to jump out of windows in shame. But we only know this because the British papers and the blogosphere are telling it like it is.
What is tragic is the large number of weak-minded people who were likely terrorized by the scare talk. The type of people who are uneducated and work 10 hours a day with no way to get educated on what is really going on in the news.
I remember reading during the Copenhagen summit about the Pacific Islanders who were frightened that their islands were really going to be submerged and were wondering why the rich countries weren't giving them money to help.
There are all kinds of people victimized by these twisted liberal schemes.
Yeah, the Times hates it when others get into their area. ;’) Thanks Ernest.
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