Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/06/2010 1:39:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The US privately lobbied IPCC chair Dr Rajendra Pachauri, as well as the UK, EU, Argentina and Mali representatives, and had put its embassies to work from Brazil to Uzbekistan. It wanted to prevent the election of Dr Mostafa Jafari as one of two co-chairmen of a key working group.
The other co-chair was to be an American scientist, Prof Christopher Field. The US state department noted that sharing the IPCC position with an Iranian would be "problematic" and "potentially at odds with overall US policy towards Iran".
The jobs often involved travel to and extended residencies in each other's countries, the cable said. The appointment of an Iranian would also "significantly complicate" US funding for the IPCC secretariat for that working group. US diplomats recognised Jafari as "a highly-qualified scientist ... but he is also a senior Iranian government employee".
Pachauri today rejected any suggestion he had colluded with the US private approaches, which apparently ended in another candidate, an Argentinian, being appointed to the position to which Jafari had been nominated. A spokesperson for Pachauri said that he, "neither influenced, nor agreed to influence, the election. Not only would such an agreement be outside his mandate as chairman of the IPCC, but it would also be impossible to achieve."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
So we were funding the IPCC ....DEFUND That group ....would make the world better.
And the problem is?
He [Jafari, the Iranian "scientist"] had already served as a lead author for the previous IPCC report, which was published in 2007 and is credited with convincing the world's governments that human activities were very likely to be causing global warming. The report helped win the IPCC that year's Nobel peace prize alongside former US vice-president Al Gore.
My, my, now we know that, with the consent of our State Department nitwits, a representative of one of our worst enemies in the world was one of the main people responsible for the IPCC's doctored conclusion "that human activities were very likely to be causing global warming." Of course an Iranian government official never would have worked to use the IPCC to get us to commit economic suicide. [Sarc. off.] I wonder what Newt, the Couch boy, thinks of all this. Also cool how the Illegal and his accomplices never seemed to manage to mention this little tidbit.
Hang him.
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