Roger Harrabin of the BBC writes:
UN climate chief resignation call
Several environmentalists, UK MPs and scientists has called for the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN’s climate science body.
Dr Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in the past been criticised by climate “sceptics”.
They have claimed that some of his comments had become politicised.
Pressure increased recently when a report recommended that IPCC chairs serve only a single term of office.
Dr Pachauri has yet to comment on the matter.
The IPCC chair is into his second term and several leading scientists and green thinkers contacted by BBC News say he should quit now.
The list includes Tim Yeo, chairman of the all-party Commons Climate and Energy Committee; Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, the Royal Society’s climate change head; and Mike Hulme a former IPCC lead author.
Mr Yeo told BBC News: “Dr Pachauri has become a liability – he is now causing more harm than good. Climate science needs a guarantee of utmost reliability, and Dr Pachauri can no longer guarantee that. It would be as well if he stepped aside.”
Professor Hulme said: “Whatever merit his leadership of IPCC has had in the past, Dr Pachauri is unfortunately now associated with controversy and error in the IPCC AR4.”
“As clearly implied by the IAC Review, a new chair for AR5 would bring fresh vitality and a new respect to the IPCC.”
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The BBC understands that if Dr Pachauri is determined to hang on to the job, his post is safe for a while at least. A UN source said developed countries were keen to strike a deal on biodiversity, so would not be prepared to upset developing countries by calling for resignation of a high-profile Indian.
The question now is whether Dr Pachauri feels he is still serving the best interests of the IPCC, following such a negative reaction from British greens whom he may have considered to be his friends.
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Please don’t show that picture. It scares me, so think what it will do for any children who happen to pop by.
The longer Pachauri is in post the better. He brings the IPCC and “climate science” into great disrepute.
Leave mr. Pachauri, please leave. That will serve mankind best.
“The question now is whether Dr Pachauri feels he is still serving the best interests of the IPCC . . .”
Gee, I wonder how he feels about himself? This is definitely *not* the important question.
after the very solid research by EUREFerendum on Pachauri, I am staggered anyone left him there for a minute longer than it should take to empty his desk, so to speak.
a new and vital IPCC. more credibility?
I doubt it.
[snip – over the top]
Couldn’t agree more that Pachauri should resist any and all attempts to dislodge him from his position. I’d pay good money to watch a prolonged, knock-down, drag-out fight among the “extremists” (who want him gone, so someone can effectively lead the charge back to the Middle Ages that the AGW movement will lead us), the “realists” (who want him gone because they realize their reputations might be affected by him being poster-boy for their “science”), and the “good ol’ boys” (who want him to stay on because they’ve got a good scam going and once one link in the chain breaks….).
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Maybe Soros will put in the “fix” and he’ll be gone in a few weeks. Sigh.
Agree I hope he stays on
I vote that he should stay–of course, I’m not a warmer, if you catch my drift.
Phillip Bratby says:
September 23, 2010 at 8:47 am
The longer Pachauri is in post the better. He brings the IPCC and “climate science” into great disrepute.
I agree. Every time the IPCC issues any statement with his name on it there will be media references to his recent “problems” and quotes from a variety of people commenting on them. The longer he is there the greater damage he is doing to the IPCC and the more the public will learn to distrust both Pachuri himself, the IPCC and the people who write for it.
Oops, forgot to tell George Monbiot – who claims that Pachauri is “innocent”.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/26/the-smearing-of-an-innocent-man/
The IPCC was established for the express purpose of giving the appearance of scientific legitimacy to a foregone conclusion: that human use of fossil fuels was causing catastrophic ‘global warming’.
Changing its director will not change the agenda of the IPCC. It is a disgrace and it should be abolished. Scientists everywhere should insist on no less.
/Mr Lynn
Never mind Pachauri, how about we rid ourselves of Harrabin, Black, Yeo, Hulme, Monbiot and the rest of the UK post-normal freak show. This is the real threat to the UK, its economy and the social well being of its people, not the IPCC. Frankly I’m not interested in what a bunch of spleen grease peddlers have to say about anything.
“Dr Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in the past been criticised by climate “sceptics”.
They have claimed that some of his comments had become politicised.”
“The BBC understands that if Dr Pachauri is determined to hang on to the job, his post is safe for a while at least. A UN source said developed countries were keen to strike a deal on biodiversity, so would not be prepared to upset developing countries by calling for resignation of a high-profile Indian.”
It’s not just his comments the “sceptics” are criticizing as being political, it’s the whole panel.
John says:
September 23, 2010 at 8:55 am
No John, I want the clown to stay. He is showing himself to be a buffoon and someone new might give the panel new credibility.
If Yeo, the BBC and other watermelons want Pachauri to go, then I say, Pachauri, stay where you are!
He is still serving his own interests. In fact he recently engaged an audit firm to audit his 0wn ny regarding his own travel expenses.
The audit of his own travel expenses showed he traveled where the tickets he purchased were paid to take him.
Fascinating to watch the warmists trying for damage limitation by ditching Patchy and installing another unscientific warmist with a cleaner pair of hands to carry on their dirty work… Once again – this isn’t science, it’s politics and the snouts in the trough looking after their own interests…
And anybody who thinks we’ll be satisfied with Patchy’s head as a “trophy” is seriously mistaken. Nothing less than dismantling the entire corrupt warmists’ construct will satisfy me!
Frankly I don’t care whether he stays or goes – in many ways the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know. In some ways it would be a waste of our energy to have to start and dismantle the credibility of another IPCC Chair but what are dark cold winter evenings for?
Phillip Bratby says:
September 23, 2010 at 8:47 am
“Please don’t show that picture. It scares me, so think what it will do for any children who happen to pop by.
The longer Pachauri is in post the better. He brings the IPCC and “climate science” into great disrepute.”
Got it in one (both points). Good job, Mr. Bratby.
Watching Patchy desperately clinging to his ivory tower of privilege and power in the IPCC will do much more long term harm to the AGW cause than kicking him out.
A discredited individual, having a sideline of running an organisation with obviously dodgy finances and undisclosed cash distributions, is just what you need at the helm of the flagship of bad climate science, the IPCC. It keeps things in perspective, as well as helping keep the stench of fraud – both scientific and otherwise – firmly in the general public’s nostrils.
My vote is to keep Patchy in his place.
I recommend that one, make that two, INDEPENDENT review processes be formulated to examine the science, or maybe the leadership qualities, or… not.
Hardly original, but it worked so well last time…
good he is still there. he is a cartoon character. As long as he is there, it is easier for people to see how arrogant and crooked these guys at IPCC are
Dr Pachauri has yet to comment on the matter. Personally, I recommend McLean in Belmont MA.
What amazes me is how these creatures turn on one-another so readily.
“I say old chap, got caught what? Throw him under the bus would you James, then fetch me my brandy.”
Like the Hydra the machine will grow another head, maybe one we don’t have as many handles on.
He should stay so that the demise of the IPPC is hastened. His political statements and support for phoney science will surely cast doubt on any further IPPC pronouncements.
The last thing needed is a ‘credible’ replacement.
Dear Penthouse Letters,
I never thought this would happen to me. I was a happy-go-lucky engineer in India when I was picked to be the head of a UN sponsored committee on climate change. I don’t know much about the issue, but my friend Al Gore (see the March 2000 issue, “Me and the Massesuse”) helped get this thing started. We became an international powerhouse, even creating our own industry about it!
But I felt something was missing from my life, so I moved from the world of writing articles for scientific journals to writing racy romance novels. It was there I met “Debby”….
It’s TERIble. Patchy TERIfied everyone so he could rake in TERIfic $hekel$.
Quick quick quick, someone move Patchy out of the way, doubleplus quick, before his humungous moneymaking scam becomes too frakkin obvious to skeptics.
heck, it was skeptics who noticed.