In my post The Glaciers Are Melting I looked at an an error in the IPCC report that was taken straight out of a popular science magazine, New Scientist. New Scientist did a retraction and the head of the IPCC, railroad engineer Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, defended the "data" despite the retraction. He finally gave in after about a week (weak?) of defense.
The ever lovable Anthony Watts seems to have found out why Pachauri was defending a retracted report.
We've covered some of the travails of IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajenda Pachauri here at WUWT in the past couple of weeks. Besides the facts mentioned above, the National Hurricane Center chief scientist Christopher Landsea resigned in 2007 from the IPCC over what he cited as lack of confidence in the science.
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.
Most notable recently was the bogus claim In the IPCC AR4 that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 that appeared to be based on nothing more than a journalist's opinion piece, contrary to IPCC rules that reports be based on peer reviewed science.
It gets better. Or worse. Depending on your point of view.
The "IPCC 2035 glacier error" has been used to solicit funds for new projects, and guess where the money goes?
This PDF File is from the EU's HighNoon website, and shows how the EU set up a project to research the 'rapid retreat' of glaciers in the Himalayas based on the bogus IPCC report. Some of the EU taxpayers' money put into this project has gone to TERI, which is run by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri.
That sure looks bad.
But I have something that looks even worse. From the Telegraph.co.uk comes this little gem.
I can report a further dramatic twist to what has inevitably been dubbed "Glaciergate" - the international row surrounding the revelation that the latest report on global warming by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained a wildly alarmist, unfounded claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented admission: the statement in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 had no scientific basis, and its inclusion in the report reflected a "poor application" of IPCC procedures.
What has now come to light, however, is that the scientist from whom this claim originated, Dr Syed Hasnain, has for the past two years been working as a senior employee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which Dr Pachauri is director-general. Furthermore, the claim - now disowned by Dr Pachauri as chairman of the IPCC - has helped TERI to win a substantial share of a $500,000 grant from one of America's leading charities, along with a share in a three million euro research study funded by the EU.
How do those people sleep at night? Probably on a pillow stuffed with twenties.
I do think that this kind of corruption will greatly assist the suit filed by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association against the EPA's attempted regulation of CO2 emissions.
I'm sure it will put a hole in the arguments of the Communists at Copenhagen. In fact I have a video of the Communists at Copenhagen. There is a really cute Communist about 1:15 into the video.
Yes M., all true. And still no report from Penn State. I am embarrassed by the conduct of my AM. Dean Easterling speaks from both sides of his mouth while the hustlers furiously spin behind the green door.
At least where the error is concerned. Given that the post was published back on January 19th, it doesn't cover the most recent revelation.
BTW, I found this graph particularly pertinent.
In summary, the measure of an organisation is not determined by the mere existence of errors, but in how it deals with them when they crop up. The current discussion about Himalayan glaciers is therefore a good opportunity for the IPCC to further improve their procedures and think more about what the IPCC should be doing in the times between the main reports.
For a different take on the matter read this thread on the matter
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Don?t bang your head!
Yes M., all true. And still no report from Penn State. I am embarrassed by the conduct of my AM. Dean Easterling speaks from both sides of his mouth while the hustlers furiously spin behind the green door.