There’s so much climate news going on I’ve been derelict in keeping this feature up.
This QOTW is from our friend and WUWT contributor Willis Eschenbach who writes:
I just got my 29 January 2010 copy of Science Magazine, which contains an interview with Rajendra K. Pachauri, the future ex-Chairman of the IPCC. In it, he gives the following astounding answer:
Q: Has all that has happened this winter dented the credibility of IPCC?R.K.P.: I don’t think the credibility of the IPCC can be dented. If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?
Why indeed? …
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Isn’t that what we’ve been asking all along? 🙂
There is nothing I can add to make this any funnier than it is. At the same time it is very, very, sad. Probably a quantum mechanics thing.
umm, what?
I know I can’t think of anything…
Here’s a quote of the same high intellectual level:
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“I think so, Brain, but this time you put the trousers on the chimp.”
“R.K.P.: I don’t think the credibility of the IPCC can be dented. If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?”
Didn’t think, didn’t look and didn’t ask.
Has the world (or any civilization) ever been worried about climate change?
Yes, and for longer than records were kept, like Joseph warning Pharoah about a coming famine.
If the IPCC wasn’t there, a lot more people would be thinking about preparing for the changing climate, instead of cooking up hideous doom & gloom stories to help them cash in on fear.
It is a very sad state of affairs where the people who dispense Nobel Prizes are the same people who garner Nobel Prizes. In my opinion, Nobel Prizes are now corrupt and meaningless. It is a sad reflection upon the world of science that the heritage of the great physicists, biologists, etc of the past has been demeaned.
And Al Gore steps up too:
“Worse than we thought”
http://blog.algore.com/2010/02/worse_than_we_thought.html
Maybe he has left the country and the record has got stuck.
OT But this looks Interesting
Former NASA scientist defends theory refuting global warming doctrine
http://www.examiner.com/x-32936-Seminole-County-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Former-NASA-scientist-defends-theory-refuting-global-warming-doctrine
John
Yes, that’s a very good question.
But it’s that long green from the taxpayers that will keep them in business, and lots of other folks on a leash. Here’s another good quote about that:
Scientists have been trained with grant funds the way Pavlov’s dogs were trained with dog biscuits.
~Oliver K. Manuel/WUWT
R.K.P.:”If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?”
Open mouth, insert foot. Or in Pachauri’s case: insert feet, many many feet.
I think you have named this one … The laugh of the week.
Do the Cart/Horse, Egg/Chicken idioms translate to Indian English syntax?
Valentines Day Edition:
If my bosomy ex-girlfriend wasn’t around, why would my wife worry about me cheating?
Andrew
Excellent quote Smokey. Hat tip to O.K.Manuel.
OT:
But it looks like realclimate has managed to weave/spin together a ‘response’ to last months ‘problems’. At this rate they may catch up to the Phil Jones revelations even before the snow melts in Washington!
“IPCC errors: facts and spin”
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/ipcc-errors-facts-and-spin/
Love the title, actual facts and realclimate spin.
It seems clear that the chairman is as impervious to irony as he is to objectivity and ethics.
I think this is the positive feedback loop they have been looking for all along.
The only reason their credibility can’t be dented is because they don’t have any! His arrogance and snobbery is just another example of a politician’s dismissal of anyone, especially those who point out his/her failure to tell the truth, who disagrees with their position.
Good one Mr. Manuel, thanks for keeping it going, Smokey..
(I have been there in my undergrad days..)
-no market for Porcupine Entrails, however-…
Blimey – anyone look at the picture top left on Al Gore’s blog – with that wall of monitors all he needs is a white cat and a monocle and he would be giving Blofeld a run for his money…
Mind you given his blog is written on what looks like school A4 paper – I want to put a fat red ‘F’ in the corner..
Tom in Florida (18:38:37) :
Open wallet, empty contents in my tent.
Take small vial of Green Water for your donation.
Repeat steps above until the true meaning of IPCC Green is fully understood.
Jean: You ask the following……..
Jean Parisot (18:40:18) :
Do the Cart/Horse, Egg/Chicken idioms translate to Indian English syntax
Answer: Gas/Curry
Pachauri: Open wide, stick foot in mouth.
Question for Rajendra K. Pachauri:
How dare you and Al Gore peddle that crap as science? Have you no shame?
You made fools of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, too.
Oliver K. Manuel
Emeritus Professor of
Nuclear & Space Sciences
Former NASA PI for Apollo