IPCC's Pachauri swarmed by reporters – refuses to step down

Interesting. Pachauri is Indian, and is being questioned by other Indians in English.

Yeah, one BIG mistake.

Show us the data
Show us how you measured the data
Show us the code

Hang in there Patches. Don’t you go anywhere. You’re doing an awesome job with AGW.
Just not in the way you think you are.

Many languages are spoken in India – English is the common language.

Hey,
I think you misspelled Pachauri’s name in the title?
REPLY: Fixed thanks

He sold his soul to the devil. Or…is he the devil who buys souls?

My birdfeeder is sure active. I have a new bird, the Pachauri. It doesn’t eat any seed from the feeder. It sits on top of the feeder, squawks, and steals food from the other birds feeding. Hummmm, where is my shotgun?

Hope he stays well beyond his stale date. He’s the 2nd best salesman alive for the skeptics (after Al, of course).

Although India bought the AGW scam hook, line, and sinker, the press and the people there, as negligent as they have been in the past in asking questions– *hate* a fraud.
Shine the light, NDTV!

Vincent (11:37:10)
India has over 400 languages ( plus thousands of dialects ) the only way that Indians can communicate with each other ( thanks to the British ) is in English.
I once had a street beggar in Delhi, tell me that the longest English word that he new was ‘iambicpentameter ‘ he quoted Shakespeare for his penny’s.

Notice also that Reuters is careful to say that the only criticism against Patchauri and the IPCC involve the “one mistake” of the glaciers.
It’s dishonest of them not to mention that the entire report and methods are being brought into serious question, but at least the story is getting coverage. Somewhere.

You tell ’em Patchy! Don’t let the haters get to you!
You are showing the world that climate science is all about 70 year old guys with bad comb overs writing cheap romance novels about sleeping with underage teenagers and filling the world’s newspapers with unsubstantiated fear mongering every day for decades in order to drum up business for your otherwise pointless and parasitic corporate activities.
If that’s not science… nay, humanity… at its best, I don’t know what is.

Patch,
you are the posterboy for Anti-AGW! Keep it up bro!

Yes! – hang in there Patchi! – Go do that voodoo that you do so well!
The dream team together: – In December 2007, HARDtalk travelled to Oslo to interview the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore and Dr Rajendra Pachauri.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8340238.stm

Vincent – India is an immense sub-continent, land of many faiths, languages and ethnic groups. While Hindi is the official language, many Indians have Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, etc., as their mother tongue. As the British ruled the entirety of India for many years, and established the Indian civil service, English has become accepted as the the lingua franca of India.

Oily Patchouli must go!
From Wiki;
“Patchouli oil has also been used as a hair conditioner for dreadlocks. One study suggests patchouli oil may serve as an all-purpose insect repellent.”

Resigning from the IPCC for making fraudulent claims would be like resigning from the mafia for extortion.

You’re doing a helluva job Pachi.

He looks like a Qliphah:
Qliphoth, kliffoth or klippot (singular: qliphah) refer to the representation of evil forces in the mystical teachings of Judaism (such as in the Kabbalah.)

Jack Maloney see:
Official Language – Constitutional/Statutory Provisions

Article 343(1) of the Constitution provides that Hindi in Devanagari script shall be the Official Language of the Union. Article 343(2) also provided for continuing the use of English in official work of the Union for a period of 15 years (i.e., up to 25 January 1965) from the date of commencement of the Constitution. Article 343(3) empowered the parliament to provide by law for continued use of English for official purposes even after 25 January 1965. Accordingly, section 3(2) of the Official Languages Act, 1963 (amended in 1967) provides for continuing the use of English in official work even after 25 January 1965. The Act also lays down that both Hindi and English shall compulsorily be used for certain specified purposes such as Resolutions, General Orders, Rules, Notifications, Administrative and other Reports, Press Communiqués; Administrative and other Reports and Official Papers to be laid before a House or the Houses of Parliament; Contracts, Agreements, Licences, Permits, Tender Notices and Forms of Tender, etc.

Note that India has no “national” language. People have immolated themselves in protest etc.

Patchy Morals

vincent,
as most people don’t know, thought i would state these common facts, that all indians KNOW, but may not ACKNOWLEDGE.
1: India is the largest English Speaking country in the world. Funny and varied accents aside, over 325 million indians can carry on a conversation in english
2: English is the common language spoken in the country. No other language has the geographical reach that english has, within India
3: English is the reason, why indians can provide the services to the world that they do provide today.
4: you cannot get ANY PROFESSIONAL degree in any other language.

He is guy telling us about the evils of modern living and the need to find alternative fuels while:
In 2005, he [Pachauri – head of UN IPCC] set up GloriOil, a Texas firm specialising in technology which allows the last remaining reserves to be extracted from oilfields otherwise at the end of their useful life.
http://www.glorioil.com/technology.htm
Also he is well vested in carbon credits to make him money both ways he turns.

Correction:
He is the guy telling….

Come now colleagues, we have all had a laugh at the poor man’s expense. Now for another.
The Caitlin expedition is off and running. This time:
“Scientists and explorers will brave polar bears, thin ice and frostbite within the next fortnight as they embark on an Arctic expedition to examine the impact of an acidifying ocean on the region’s animals and plants.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/25/catlin-arctic-survey-ocean-acidification
No doubt WUWT will follow their progress closely.

There are hundreds of languages in India. In the republic each state has at least 3 official languages, Hindu, English and the dominant state language eg Bengali in Bengal State. Hindi for historical reasons is unacceptable to many in some states English is commonly used for nationwide communication. Also higher education in India is mostly in English so for reporters to question the Patch in English is unremarkable.

Choo choo isn’t going anyplace on his own.
The only sensible course of action is to disband IPCC, and encourage the UN to focus on humanitarian aid.
Think how much money was wasted on sending climate clunkers to places like Bali.
Think of the HORRIFIC job the UN did to help anybody in the South Indian Ocean after the tsunami or in Haiti.
Ever hear the klunky Choo choo say anything the least bit edifying or humane or uplifting? Never.

I see there are some in this thread who think the British gifted India with English. Carry on with your pre-judices. Have fun. I wonder how much of the Pachauri bashing is anti-third world hatred and nothing else beyond.
Pachauri is a symptom of the corruption that the global warming movement engenders – he is not the cause of anything. His resignation wont change anything. His continued presence actually greatly weakens the AGW movement. Pachauri shot his own foot with his defence of the IPCC report without checking background, before Copenhagen. He would have done that however strong the expose be at that point. Anybody in his position would have done the same.
Pachauri picked up the corrupt ways of the revolving door between policy-making and business from his UK/EU and US friends – there is no doubt about that. Call out Dick Cheney and Al Gore first is what I say.
Someone’s else egging NDTV on in another post. He doesn’t perhaps know Prannoy Roy’s obsequious friendship with Pachauri. Or the Greenathon fundraising campaigns.
India perhaps knowingly has done enough to keep the AGW carbon credit/emissions trading juggernaut at bay, as much as it has made money off it. Its inflexible position has held up negotiations from Rio in ’92 onwards. Jairam Ramesh the environment minister is responsible for bringing down Pachauri from his high perch. Pachauri continues onward only possibly because he has Farooq Abdullah (and perhaps thus the Indian PM) in his ever-shrinking corner. Jairam Ramesh called Hillary Clinton’s bluff at Copenhagen (Google it). The Indian PM’s dressing-down of Yvo de Boer at New Delhi can be considered eventually to have led to his resignation. The Americans haven’t been twiddling their thumbs either – twice they have tried to sneak in the word ‘scrutiny’ into the Copenhagen Accord – a useless document in itself – only to be shot down by the Indian contingent.

Suitable replacements for “Patches”:
1. Al Gore
2. Phil Jones
3. Michael Mann
Oh, you want the IPCC to survive? Then the most suitable candidate:
Steve McIntyre!

Hey I don’t like his modus operandi either, but we did state, didn’t we, that personal insults only muddy the issues and create a crass tribalism.
Pachauri may be many things, but calling him slime or a creep makes skeptics look petty, don’t we have a better approach.
Since when has name calling assisted a debate, in a positive and scientific direction? (OK fair do’s – they started it with the ‘D’ word, and the papers ran with it, shame on them, lets not join them eh?)

Michael Reed (12:00:05) :
Grammar boo-boo. . .

Careful! More nit-picking and Anthony might go off on another vacation, and we can’t have that! 😉
/Mr Lynn

Ref – Nigguraths (15:30:27) :
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“Pachauri is a symptom of the corruption that the global warming movement engenders – he is not the cause of anything. His resignation wont change anything. His continued presence actually greatly weakens the AGW movement. Pachauri shot his own foot with his defence of the IPCC report without checking background, before Copenhagen. He would have done that however strong the expose be at that point. Anybody in his position would have done the same..”
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Fully agree. Pachauri is only one of many thousands who rule our world via the ‘United Nations’ mega-bureaucracy. He is benign as long as he is paid and left alone to ‘make a little on the side’. If you threaten him his coworkers and the full weight of UNWOWI (United Nations Workers of the World International) will descend upon you and make you wish you’d been born in Antarctica and had never left.
The only problem with the United Nations is the Secretariat and the General Assembly. Scrap these two minor institutions and it might not be so bad. Think about it.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!
(Even with the help of the UN!)

Expat in France (11:38:33) :
He’s another Gordon Brown – hopelessly inadequate, but refuses to go.
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Sorry to hear that, you have my sympathy.
I also hear the other parties in the UK *ALL* agree on CO2 being the true cause of AGW. This is remarkable that one or more opposition parties don’t play the game politicians usually do and take an opposite stance for the votes. A terrible situation indeed.

As a longtime francophobe and anglophile I object to English being characterized as the “lingua franca” of India. Such an insult!

Michael Reed (04:15:12) :
As a longtime francophobe and anglophile I object to English being characterized as the “lingua franca” of India. Such an insult!
Then I’d better not mention the official languages of Pondicherry are Tamil, English, and French.
Oooops…

LightRain (22:49:49) :
I also hear the other parties in the UK *ALL* agree on CO2 being the true cause of AGW. This is remarkable that one or more opposition parties don’t play the game politicians usually do and take an opposite stance for the votes. A terrible situation indeed.
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Libertarian, non-racist party seeking Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.
http://www.ukip.org/
A bit disorganized at the moment, but will go from strength to strength.

“Pachauri shot his own foot with his defence of the IPCC report without checking background”
Not really, it was higher up and more to the centreline!

There’s a new novel just out by Ian McEwan (author of Atonement), called Solar. It satirizes the juggernaut that is the global warming industry. There’s a womanizing professor in there who is on gazillions of committees and has all sorts of conflict-of-interest issues, and is really more interested in profit for himself than any real or fictive global warming. Might remind readers slightly of Dr Pachauri.

Dr. Pachauri, a railway engineer by education, claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by the year 2035. This may be considered as a big mistake. However, compared with the wrong physical methods on which all IPCC reports and a lot of climatology-linked papers are based, Pachauri’s claim is a small sin only. The scandal is that a person like Dr. Pachauri who has no competence in physical and/or statistical climatology became Chairman of the IPCC. This is the main indication to me that the IPCC is a political instrument of the United Nations, rather than a scientific panel.
Generally, we have to recognize that climate science has been burdened by
several wrong physical concepts for decades. Here are various examples:
(1) The Revelle-Suess equation widely considered as the opening shot in the anthropogenic global warming “theory” is rather inappropriate. Revelle and Suess published it in the Swedish journal Tellus in 1957.
(2) The planetary radiative balance equation for the earth in the absence of its atmosphere is based on inappropriate physical considerations. It was published by Möller in Applied Optics in 1964 without any scientific justification of the assumptions on which this planetary radiation balance equation is based. This equation serves to calculate the global uniform temperature of T_e = 255 K using a planetary albedo of 0.3 and a planetary emissivity of 1. The difference between the globally averaged near-surface temperature of = 288 K and T_e is used to quantify the so-called atmospheric greenhouse effect by – T_e = 33 K . The value of the planetary albedo, however, is based on satellite measurements, i.e., it also contains the effect of backward scattering by molecules, cloud and aerosol particles which do not exist in the case of a missing atmosphere. In his book entitled Climatic Change Budyko (1977) already mentioned that in the absence of an atmosphere the planetary albedo cannot be equal to the actual value of 0.33 (today 0.30). He assumed that prior to the origin of the atmosphere, the Earth’s albedo was lower and probably differed
very little from the moon’s albedo, which is equal to 0.07 (today 0.12 ). If
we assume the latter we will obtain 270 K for the moon and, hence, for the Earth. Reducing, in addition, the planetary emissivity by 5 percent ( 0.95 ) leads to 273 K . Results provided by remote sensing techniques at 2.77 cm wavelength, however, indicate that the average moon disk temperature is of about 213 K (Monstein, 2001). Thus, this concept of a planetary radiative balance in the absence of an atmosphere is physically inappropriate. The main assumptions are not fulfilled and the result obtained for the Moon is much higher than the observed value.
(3) In 1987 Ramanathan et al (Rev. Geophysics) argued:
“The incoming solar radiation, the reflected solar radiation, and the outgoing long-wave radiation at the top of the atmosphere have been determined by satellite radiation budget measurements, and the values inferred from these measurements are shown in Figure 2. The surface-atmosphere system emits to space roughly 236 W/m^2 , which balances the absorbed solar radiation. The emitted radiation is mostly contained in wavelengths longer than 4 micron , and hence it is referred to as long-wave, infrared (IR), or terrestrial radiation.
At a surface temperature of 288 K the long-wave emission by the surface is about 390 W/m^2, whereas the outgoing long-wave radiation at the top of the atmosphere is only 236 W/m^2 (see Figure 2). Thus the intervening atmosphere causes a significant reduction in the long-wave emission to space. This reduction in the long-wave emission to space is referred to as the greenhouse effect.”
This is clearly a misinterpretation of the global energy budget. All so-called global energy balance schemes like that of Kiehl and Trenberth (1997) and Trenberth et al. (2009) that can be found in the literature documents that the solar radiation absorbed be the Earth’s skin is partitioned into the fluxes of sensible (H) and latent heat (E) and a so-called infrared net radiation (DIR). These flux terms are heating the atmosphere from below. Also solar radiation is directly heating the atmosphere by absorption. The sum of the solar radiation absorbed by the Earth’s skin and the atmosphere is equal to the outgoing infrared radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Note that even an Earth’s surface temperature of 255 K and a fictive radiative temperature of the atmosphere of 255 K would provide DIR = 63 W/m^2 (see Trenberth et al., 2009) if the Earth is considered as a black body and an emissivity of the atmosphere of about 0.74 is assumed. This means that the Earth’s surface temperature cannot be linked to DIR which is a part of the energy flux budget at the Earth’s surface. Consequently, there is no space for an atmospheric greenhouse effect that would cause an increase of the Earth’s surface temperature.
(4) The so-called climate feedback equation, published by Schneider and Mass (1975) is inappropriate from a physical point of view (see Kramm and Dlugi, 2009, http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2286). Nevertheless, this equation serves to calculate the Increase of the Earth’s surface temperature on the basis of the so-called net global anthropogenic radiative forcing (see the IPCC reports). This equation was used by many climate researchers like Manabe, Hansen, Dickinson, Ramanathan, and Schlesinger.
(5) The globally averaged near-surface temperature of about = 288 K has no physical meaning. Mann’s hockey stick-like temperature curve and the possible manipulation of data linked to the ClimateGate only serves to establish a measure of global climate change. Unfortunately, there is no global climate. This is a contradiction in terms.
(6) Climate predictions (or climate projections) have nothing to do with science because there are no observational data that allow to evaluate these predictions in the (broader) sense of a scientific verification. As shown by Kramm and Dlugi (2009), the uncertainty inherent in geophysical processes prevents to perform climate projections with a sufficient degree of accuracy.
(7) Obviously there is a misinterpretation of climate change. Climate change is not related to a slight variation of temperature or precipitation as claimed by climate researchers. Climate change can only be identified on the basis of two non-overlapping climate periods. This might be the case when a region has been changed from a subtropical climate to a tropical climate or vice
versa.
(8) The so-called global warming potential used in several IPCC reports has no physical meaning. The governing equations are the conservation equation of internal energy, and the transfer equation for radiative intensities. In both equations neither a global net anthropogenic radiative forcing nor global warming potential occurs. Even though these quantities are senseless, they are used by the IPCC, i.e., in the sense of policy-making.