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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This type of behavior is not new. Maybe 15 years ago I attended an American Society of Civil Engineers symposium for Water Resources. The keynote speaker was a gentleman from the UN. During his presentation a number was presented for increasing worldwide water demand. Being a bunch of dumb a** engineers one of us asked where that number came from. The answer, delivered with a straight face was “we made it up.” The justification given was they wanted a number large enough to attract attention.
Now don’t get me wrong, the lack of fresh water supplies is a serious issue, especially in Africa, but for heaven’s sake if you don’t have real numbers don’t make them up.
When even I read about what is turning into a farce, I can’t help thinking of the DeLorean Sports Car story where the British government along with assorted stars of film and entertainment got roped into financing what turned out to be a total disaster and cost the British taxpayer approximately £80 million, small fry compared to what this ‘Man Made Global Warming Scam’ has, is and will cost us.
Lord Monckton tells Aussi radio he has documents showing Mr. Pachauri under-declared financial compensation from his NGO. Monckton called it “criminal.”
Oh my… It’s as if we’ve suddenly been teleported into a new reality that’s free to debunk AGW. Ain’t VR great?
Alas, that’s not the case. He has only confessed to knowing it was not peer-reviewed, and that he included it in order to alarm the readership. He has specifically denied that he received Georg Kaser’s letter warning him that the 2035 figure was completely absurd. He couldn’t possibly make such an admission and have any sort of career left. Here’s an extract from that Daily Mail article:
John Blake (14:18:29) :
“… ensure that major long-term glacial cooling –averaging 102,000 years from the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary 1.8-million years ago– will have catastrophic demographic impacts when it inevitably comes.”
John, did you ever consider that “they” were well aware that “an Ice Age cometh” and are intent on moving the European, US and Canadian industries and their wealth south, while leaving the people in the NH to face death? The timing is about right. Maurice Strong started this whole CAGW/Enviornmentalism craze at the first UN earth summit in 1972 at the same time Milankovitch’s ice age cycle was being confirmed by Shackleton’s work with marine cores. {see http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-15-ice-ages-confirmed.html}
Maurice Strong is well connected to oil, the UN, the World Bank and the Rockefellers. Even Radio for Peace International figured out the guy is no Santa Claus.
“Anyone searching “Maurice Strong” on the web encounters a very
interesting array of entries. (To quote Lewis Carroll, the story
becomes “Curious and curiouser”) If we can believe even 10% of the
story of his ascent to power and influence, an astonishing tale of
subterfuge emerges, consistent with his attack on RFPI. Beyond the fig
leaf of NGO’s that he uses for cover, Strong’s real alliances are with
the enemies of the UN, which they are busily “reforming…”
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxldtd3g.html
Do you really thing the wacko tree hugger – animal rights – back to nature craze that started in the seventies would have gone main stream without a LOT of money and influence behind it? What has been the result. Sky high oil prices because we can not drill for oil in our own backyard, the relocation of industry to India and other third world countries and lots of money funneled directly into the central banks.
The Grace Commission report notes that 100% of personal income tax goes to pay interest on the national debt, the lion’s share of which goes to the banking cartel that we know as the Federal Reserve. http://www.bloggernews.net/17032
There is also the CIA document on “global cooling” written in 1974.
“Investigations indicate that interglacials periods never extend beyond 12500 years nor has the period ever been less than 10,000 years. The glacial periods may be characterized by large continental ice sheets…and came to an end approximately 10,000 years ago …Scientist are confident that unless man is able to modify the climate the northern regions such as Canada, the European part of the Soviet Union and major areas of Northern China, will again be covered with 100 to 200 feet of ice and snow. That this will occur within the next 2500 years they are quite positive; that it may occur sooner is open to speculation.” http://www.climatemonitor.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1974.pdf
Given a report like that I can certainly see a plan for moving the necessary parts of “civilization” south without revealing why. Sort of put the Baxter lab goof with the flu in a different light does it not? Especially given the recent years of “cooling” and a quiet sun along with recent studies showing a change to an Ice age can happen in a decade. http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=10046