UPDATE: links to new information posted at the bottom of this article, including a new story from the Times
UPDATE2: Jonathan Leake’s story at the Time is Online, linking Pauchari’s TERI organization to government funding grants that were solicited using the bogus “Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035” claim.
Christopher Booker of the Telegraph has a story that shows Pachauri’s own employee at TERI was the source of the bogus glacier claim. Now the corruption comes full circle.
UPDATE3: Pachauri now bizarrely claims in a press interview that the IPCC’s credibility has been strengthened.
IMHO, Dr. Pachauri is toast. He has nowhere to go except out.
See links at end of this story
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. The Times of India has just run their first political cartoon on the subject.
That in itself was a bombshell, since the IPCC had to withdraw the claim. Other errors in the report have been found also and it is looking like the IPCC didn’t do any checking of this section of their report, bringing the entire report into question.
There’s also been quite a bit of first class investigative work done by Christopher Booker of the Telegraph and Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum about Dr. Pachauri’s connections to TERI (The Energy Research Institute) and his IPCC position. As I pointed out about his email usage, it seems he has a difficult time delineating the two to ensure that there is no conflict of interest.
Now it appears that conflict of interest charges are about to go to a higher level.
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.
See slide number 5 for the IPCC citation.
It appears that is using this single “…disappearing by the year 2035” statement as justification for an entire research project, funded by the EU, which is funded by taxpayers.
As we see in slide 7, they got a nice tidy 10 million Euros ($14.13 millon USD) to study a false statement based on nothing more than a passing opinion.
I have word through a backchannel that Jonathan Leake of the London Times is about to make known financial linkages to this and several more TERI/IPCC projects funded by taxpayer dollars.
Here’s his Times report from last week.
I’ll make his newest report available here as soon as it appears.
UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
Jonathan Leake, Science and Environment Editor
BREAKING NEWS:
Leake: UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers
Taxpayers funding research under Pachauri’s TERI organization
Booker: Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal :
Dr Pachauri has rapidly distanced himself from the IPCC’s baseless claim about vanishing glaciers. But the scientist who made the claim now works for Pachauri, writes Christopher Booker
Bizarre claim: ‘IPCC’s credibility has increased’: Pachauri
“Facing a barrage of questions from the media about his `loss of credibility’, Pachauri maintained that all “rational people” would continue to repose their faith in IPCC and its findings.” – yeah right.
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When the EU named their site High Noon, did they have their irony antennae set to sleep?
Someone needs to keep Kerry and Boxer “in the loop” as they still beat the IPCC AGW drum.
Doo-doo and and a fan comes to mind.
Mark
Thanks for keeping the spotlight focused on the unfolding AGW scandal (anthropological global warming).
The roots of this scandal follow the same flow of public funds that corrupted our most prestigious research journals and research institutions.
Follow the money!
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
I highly recommend watching this program. Since Climategate broke, my interest in this topic has dramatically peaked. I learned so much more than I knew before.
Even proponents can learn a lot from this. Climate science is not impossible to understand. The difficult part is making accurate predictions, obviously. I have always been skeptical of doomsday predictions, and CAGW falls squarely into this category.
When you realize how sloppily the raw data is obtained, it’s virtually impossible to even agree that warming has occurred. Sigh!
Wow, the amounts of personal money are getting bigger. Quite typical that this kind of big bad stuff occurred here in the EU…
AGW global warming and climate change is alive and thriving in the UK. The heroic CRU scientists receive sypathetic reassuring messages from all and sundry. They gamely soldier on in their work despite being badgered by ill advised sceptics, who have nothing better to do, siting the FOI Act. No doubt the Court of Human Rights in Brussels will eventually come to their aid. Dr Pechauri should come and live here, (that’s if he doesn’t already), and he will not receive any press coverage at all, hostile or otherwise.
From Wiki, the Gangotri Glacier (about one of India’s biggest) is about 30,200 meters long and it’s losing about 25 meters per year versus and an average of about 19 meters per year since 1780. So, it’ll disappear by Year 3200 or so.
Can’t wait to see that.
Usually when a massive enterprise like AGW starts to go down, the politicians who are going to get caught up in it realize they need to find some scapegoats to pin the blame on. Pachouri looks tailormade for the part.
What’s amazing is that I don’t think Gordon Browne is intelligent enough to realize yet that this is all going down and that he and his party are going down with it if he doesn’t do something.
Cameron has also been drinking the AGW koolaid; but since he doesn’t have any direct responsibility so far this is a great opportunity for him to jump off the bandwagon, if he will make use of it. “I was honest but misled by these evildoers!” is a line that has worked time and again. No need for *everyone* to go down with the ship; good politicians are supposed to know that instinctively.
This “mistake” reminds me of the “mistakes” I sometimes find on restaurant bills. If it’s a mistake, then why is it that 90% of the time it goes in favor of the restaurant?
I heard a radio report last week that Pachauri had threatened legal action against a British news organization. Was this the article that triggered that response?
As a foreign national living in Rome (EU) I have seen what a joke this body is. Now we get this quote: “After CAREFUL CONSIDERATION…” They give this careful consideration to many of their decisions. They will ruin the entire Union economically as they push their agenda forward. Let’s hope that the rest of the world sees the ruination of the EU and doesn’t follow suit.
Not only did they get the rates wrong, but their absolute areas were completely off the mark. Blinding incompetence indicating that there was no actual research ever done.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
One of the supermarkets here in the Chicago area has little TV monitors set up so that the folks in the check-out lines can be entertained (and watch advertisements) while they wait. Along the bottom of the screen is a little news-scroll, like you see on Fox News or CNN (or, presumably, other news channels).
To my surprise, the scroll said something like (I missed the 1st couple of words) ” . . . report on glaciers is riddled with errors”! It’s quite a sea-change to see something like this get play through this kind of outlet. Amazing
This glacier melt thing is nonsense regarding drinking water. We have no glaciers in the eastern US and only a small amount even in the West. Our rivers and streams flow year round. Drinking water comes from precipitation, it doesn’t matter whether it falls as snow or rain or whether it freezes for 1,000 years before it ends up in a river for human use. AGW theory proposes that there will be increased precipitation, thereby increased monsoons in the Himalayas, even if temperature rise a drastic 10F, there would be plenty of drinking water, as long as precipitation continues. Duh, and they model more precipitation, not less.
That Chris Landsea link does not work anymore. It used to be here. My simple use of google cache did not pull it up. Very revealing, probably too revealing.
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/science_policy_general/000318chris_landsea_leaves.html
Here is the Malaria guy also resigning.
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-09-01/paul.htm
Another beauty. The geolgoists conference “deniers”.
Sea Level Denier. The Greatest Lie Ever Told
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html
Important Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson denier!
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151
Give Pachauri some horns and a pitchfork and he fits right in… in that afterlife place where it’s VERY WARM. He looks like a “dead ringer” for the proprietor that runs the place, and I hear the owner there likes it REALLY HOT. That could be considered Man-made Warming too, so he’d be right at home there…
Here is my statement – –
“The sky is falling !!!”
EU Environment ministers may deposit research funds into the following account:
Routing Number – 429578297
Account Number 0208-9927-4275
Cashcow Cassandra and Paycheck Pachauri heading for a fall I think.
Hasnain, who came up with the 2035 BS(Bad Science) is Employed by TERI (Formerly TATA Energy Research Institute)
This will not stand.
Of course , the US media has completely ignored “glaciergate” , except for a passing mention on Fox . How far in the tank do you have to be to not bother with what could become a major international scancal ? The US media cetainly took to the oil for food thingy .
( Mods – I think “[roject” should read project . )
[Thanks, fixed. ~dbs]
How many warrants are outstanding on our pal Maurice Strong?
I wonder if our good friend George Soros has his pinkies somewhere near the cookie jar?
Climate Change – The Musical
Starring Rajenda Pachauri
Fresh from his successful New York show Rajenda Pachauri sings his favorite song:
In this life, one thing counts
In the bank, large amounts
I’m afraid these don’t grow on trees,
You’ve got to pick-a-pocket or two
You’ve got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys,
You’ve got to pick-a-pocket or two.
Here is the cached Landsea page, saved for posterity!
http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2009/6/11/2474018/Landsea.pdf
EU Referendum and perhaps other blogs
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/high-noon-for-pachauri.html
actually knew about Pachauri’s links with High Noon – and its dependence on “2035” – more than a month ago.
The correspondence between him and Pachauri is also worth the read. THEY TOOK IT DOWN, but the internet is not good at hiding old pages. ha ha.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071128074617/sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/ipcc-correspondence.pdf
I was watching a report on CNN international on this subject a couple of days ago and was surprised to hear how the language they use has changed, its as if sceptics are acceptable members of society all of a sudden, dare i say it with all that has happened could it be that sceptics are in fashion? That means its time to reexamine the evidence.