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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Consider that Pachauri replaced Watson, and the Warmists were howling because Pachauri counted as less alarmist than Watson. Dang, we missed out on some REALLY exaggerated claims there.
Waoww…
This is a rather devastating find, because of this mitigating statement :-
” The 2035 claim was not mentioned in the IPCC’s “summary for policymakers” so was not presented as one of its central arguments.”
The implication clearly being that policy wouldn’t have been based it.
So how would the EC still manage to rely on it, for spending our money ?
delving into the detail
Robert of Ottawa (15:43:37)
I think Kevin Rudd is keeping his head down and wishing images and articles like this http://beta.thehindu.com/business/article47290.ece could be erased from history. Unfortunately for Kevin we live in the age of Little Brother, and Little Brother is not just watching but also recording….
Max (14:52:11) :
In the Sunday Times
Sloppy science is seeping into the climate watchdog
And just when you think they’re getting it; they’re not.
“If we are to have the best possible predictions about climate change, urgent decisions need to be taken. The agreeable but gaffe-prone Pachauri should accept it would be wise to walk now, so some heavy-hitters can step in and prevent a disastrous slide in the IPCC’s credibility….”
They’re going to drag this carcass until there is nothing left.
[snip – a bit OTT and getting to personal against the subject of the article]
No doubt there will be further retractions of hyped catastrophic IPCC wibble in the weeks and months to come.
Eventually we will get to the real point. There is a solid argument for increased levels of atmospheric CO2 causing an increase in temperatures at the surface. The questions are how much and how soon?
There are two ways and only two ways to know the answers. One is to see what has happened to date. The other is to wait and see what happens in the future.
To date the evidence appears to be inconclusive because: (i) the measurements of surface temperature are only accurate to a pretty wide margin for error and every declared result appears to be within the margin for error and (ii) there are serious arguments yet to be resolved about the extent to which CO2 in the atmosphere affects temperature compared to other possible causes (including causes that might not yet have been identified).
All the hyperbole about catastrophic consequences is plainly just speculation. We’ve seen and heard it all before many times in relation to other things.
One thing we should never forget is that increased atmospheric CO2 might have severe consequences. The simple fact is that no one knows because it cannot be, and has not been, measured and shown to be true. Only time will tell.
Throwing money we don’t have at a problem that might or might not exist is sheer madness. But, of course, those who throw the money are not affected by the cost, they are in power so they just vote themselves a pay rise when tofu quiche goes up in price.
And the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was endowed by the swedish centrl bank and not by mr Nobel btw.
There may be other contracts, but it was Statkraft and Statoil, both of Norway that got these contracts for the Doggerbank.
Press releases
Statkraft
http://www.statkraft.no/pressesenter/pressemeldinger-2009/tildelt-havvindsonen-doggerbank-i-storbritannia.aspx
Statoil
http://www.statoil.com/no/NewsAndMedia/News/2010/Pages/08JanDoggerBank.aspx
I am guessing Statoil has some gas to offer as well…
After Oil for Food, why would it be surprising to find another organ of the UN corrupted?
I caught a small portion of a History Channel program that was discussing the science of the Himalayas, India, monsoons, glaciers, etc.
However, the one thing that caught my ear was they mentioned the geology of the Indian subcontinent plowing into the Asian continent was the cause of much of the reduction in atmospheric CO2 during the last 2.5 million years.
Has anyone seen this theory before?
Whoever from this site has the knowledge and professional standing to submit to the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology (and imo only such people should submit, so as not to overload the enquiry) must be careful to read the list of Committee members
http://tinyurl.com/yk96v7k
and to ensure that certain members (starting with Dr Bob Spink) receive a copy of their submissions. Willis is a Liberal, and a Warmist. But there are 12 other members.
Depending on when the Election is called this Committee is likely never to report, but it’s important that those MPs likely to retain their seats get the maximum help to understand these comlex issues
Sorry won’t happen again- like this forum too much to mess up…
Some background on the cartoon above
The title of the cartoon “Duniya ke Neta” in Hindi means “Leader of the World.” The “leader” may be sarcasm or derisory.
“Duniya” = World; “Neta” = Leader.
View from the Solent (15:52:31) :
Mapou (13:32:56) :
I can’t believe the mainstream media is still vouching for Pachauri and the IPCC after everything that’s happened. It’s scandalous. The Nobel committee should also be investigated for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to an agenda-driven organization that is riddled with conflict of interest problems. The IPCC is looking more and more like a criminal organization and the prestige of the Nobel is bound to suffer as a result.
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Mapou, that’s a common misconception. The Nobel committee awards scientific prizes (the real ones). The so-called Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of politicians chosen by the Norwegian parliament.
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it’s starting to look like “peace prizes” are given out, to influence/bolster the recipients.
India dumps IPCC
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/01/23/india-dumps-ipcc/
FatBigot writes:
“Eventually we will get to the real point. There is a solid argument for increased levels of atmospheric CO2 causing an increase in temperatures at the surface. The questions are how much and how soon?”
But this is exactly the problem – there isn’t! The measurements, in the graphs I have seen on various sites, clearly demonstrate that an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere FOLLOWS global warming, with a time lag of approximately 800 years.
We are now approx 800 years on from the Medieval Warming period…
Have alook at this.
http://www.teriin.org/index.php?option=com_pressrelease&task=details&sid=171
Wow.
I generally attribute Climate Change Blas (CCB) of scientists to either righteous crusades (we are right dammit, so the ends justifies the means), or to wanting to fund the research in the work they love, so they fudge the results to assure future funding.
Most of the climategate stuff seems to fall into category one.
This, however, is a whole different animal. This is blatant and intentional fraud. Someone in the position of power the Pachauri holds, should be prosecuted for such abuse of his position.
On another note:
Craig (12:51:33) :
“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”
Craig, you saw a headline from the AP. Unfortunately, the story itself was far more slanted than the headline. Seth Borenstein (sp?) wrote this article, making it seem as if all the IPCC was guilty of was bad editing by transposing a number. You can read my comments on the story here:
http://digg.com/environment/UN_Climate_Report_Riddled_With_Errors_On_Glaciers
“Carsten Arnholm, Norway (16:36:07) : …]
Eon, RWE, Siemens are german. Ok, Norway’s companies are in the game as well:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100108-709678.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesEurope
For Statoil and gas, that makes sense.
“FatBigot (16:22:06) :
[…]
One thing we should never forget is that increased atmospheric CO2 might have severe consequences. The simple fact is that no one knows because it cannot be, and has not been, measured and shown to be true. Only time will tell. ”
In my opinion, the person who has a good model that is in line with observations of radiative fluxes at varying height in the atmosphere is Fernenc Miskolczi.
http://www.landshape.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=introduction
“For this situation when OLR and water vapor is constant, FM has calculated transient
mean global temperature increase as a consequence of the doubling of CO2 concentration;
see table 6 in the 2004 IDOJARAS paper. The result is 0.48 °C. Where OLR varies but
water is constant the result is 0.24 C.”
While it is true that THE TEAM doesn’t have any clue here, Miskolczi has. Keep in mind that the above numbers use the unrealistic assumption that water vapour stays constant which it won’t. According to his model water vapour will decline when CO2 goes up.
OT, PaulH (15:26:37) :
High Noon? If Gary Cooper were here he would know how to deal with this mess. 🙂
Right, pardner, but there’s always George W. Bush, who was demonized as a “Cowboy” by the “progressive” Left here in America. But then they started complaining that Bush wasn’t acting enough like a Cowboy when he refused to talk directly with North Korea one on one, a really stupid idea – think “China” for example – and pushed on with “six party” talks which included China and the other regional big players.
Clearly means that Pachauri and his TERI glacier specialist
– left 2035 as part of IPCC report, though knowing better
– kept silent when MSM used it as example for the catastrophy to come,
– but instead even acquired taxpayers’ money under that headline,
clearly knowing that it is completely wrong.
This is called fraud.
The fact that stupid gov bureaucrats didn’t get it “after careful consideration” does not reduce their liability. So TERI obviously is an organization that works agressively with wrong facts, misleading the public, governments and the UN.
Where are the lawywers?
Dave F (16:38:30) :
After Oil for Food, why would it be surprising to find another organ of the UN corrupted?
Let me make this observation.
Last night, Friday, the airwaves in America were taken over by George Clooney’s “Hope For Haiti Now” telethon. Across the US, worldwide, support has been pouring in, many people donating to many fine charitable organizations.
Have you noticed anyone in the US asking for a unified UN effort? In the international press? Anyone, anywhere, wanting the UN to help out and coordinate the aid?
It appears the MSM are finally smelling blood in the water. When the Times wades in with two stories the jig is surely up.
I wonder if George Monbiot can spin this?
pyromancer 14:59:26
Sorry, but no one will get sued,lose their professorship,their dept. head or nothing. There are too many “folks in charge” that will prevent this IMHO.
I’ve seen it all from sorry generals to corporate misfits.Now all of us “deniers” will get a chance to see the no result too. Look at Mann-$4500,000 grant just rewarded. Anything happen to the “arctic explorers” from last summer? No, and how about Gore and his ten million degrees-no. He still is the poster boy for AGW. The US senate?No-not a peep. I’m sorry,but I have no expectations about any of this.
“Richard M (16:46:06) :
[…]
However, the one thing that caught my ear was they mentioned the geology of the Indian subcontinent plowing into the Asian continent was the cause of much of the reduction in atmospheric CO2 during the last 2.5 million years. ”
When fresh rock is exposed to the atmosphere, weathering sets in, consuming huge amounts of CO2.