Here in the USA, WUWT readers probably don’t have a true handle on the firestorm that is going on in India over Pachauri’s “glaciergate”. It is making headlines and the people there are quite angry, because they’ve been led to believe that their Himalayan water supply was seriously threatened in the not too distant future (2035) as reported in the IPCC AR4, and now they find out it’s a bogus, and that a Pachauri peer now specifically admits the 2035 date was known to be false, and used anyway to scare policymakers into action.
Dr. Richard North, who co-wrote the first story with Christopher Booker of the Telegraph that got the inquiry started over two weeks ago, now says on an interview on Indian television that ” If Dr Pachauri does not resign voluntarily, he will be forced to do so.”
Here is video and partial transcript of that interview.
It was not until the Sunday Times last week actually highlighted it that he was forced to take action. And on that basis I don’t think he has any credible alternative but to resign and he is either going to resign voluntarily or as the media are increasingly saying he is going to be forced.
It is a very clearly recognisable tactic where he simply denies the undeniable and for a while if you are in a very elevated position you get away with it. He hasn’t yet recognised that his position is already untenable and the more he denies, the way the media works the more evidence they are going to find until such time as his denials will be so lacking in credibility that he will be unable to operate .
Transcript via Liberty New Central.
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Pachauri says the “IPCC’s credibility has increased” as a result of their incompetence and malfeasance.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IPCCs-credibility-has-increased-Pachauri/articleshow/5493066.cms
I didn’t vote; I wanted the [snip] option.
PHONY SOLUTION
I’m with the fellow who said he should stay, because his resignation only gives credibility to a corrupt organization, and the longer he stays, the more he’ll expose them for the low-lifes they are. They are all crooks an con-men, and the sooner the world realizes that, the better.
There should also be a vote for :
1) 1-to-5 years
2) 5-to-10 years
3) 10-to-25 years
4) 25-to-life
When you consider the $billions wasted, jobs lost, children brainwashed, anything less than Option3) would be a miscarriage of justice.
Someone must have reported this already, but just in case anyway:
Telegraoh -> Telegraph
In case it was reported, please don’t publish this.
I have a feeling that there are many “scientists” applying for grants right now to cover all the World Wildlife Federation’s papers, with “peer-reviewed” papers.
That way the next IPCC report will be immaculate…
Congratulations!
The first positive sign of change from the Climategate scandal.
Many more will follow if the spotlight of public attention continues to shine on the fraud and deceit promoted on the world’s population by an unholy alliance of politicians, scientists, and publishers.
Many of our most prestigious research institutions and journals were deeply involved, as well as NAS, NASA, and other federal research agencies.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA PI for Apollo
I have been amazed to see that the mainstream media is extensively covering this story. There was a whole section on this in Google News today.
I can’t help but think that Climategate made coverage like this possible. Climategate, for many people, showed that it was possible that some climate scientists were fudging their data. Now it’s shown that the IPCC was doing the same. It’s unraveling faster than I expected.
One of the videos playing in a loop in the background is Pachauri with current Australian Prime Minister (and potential future UN Secretary General) Kevin Rudd.
Gotta love it!
I hate gloating so don’t take this that way (it might sound like it anyways) – but does anyone else feel like the tide has really turned in the global discussion on this issue?
That some of this is even getting coverage is remarkable to me – I guess I am just far too used to the way things were pre-climategate. I hope people stay vigilant because I honestly do not think this will be a battle won easily – but there has been considerable progress made in a very short period of time.
Almost none of which would be possible without the incredible effort from bloggers like Anthony and McIntyre and far too many others to list really.
Anyways, sorry for the tangent.
There is an old Southern U.S. proverb: “The more you stir it the worse it stinks”. Poor Mr. Pachauri, he just can’t stop stirring. Oh! The humanity!
The bigger MSM outfits will want their share of the action real soon now. I bet they all have scribes already working on it, eagerly trawling the blogosphere, fishing for sentences to be re-used in their writeups.
It is not a good idea to anger 1.15 billion people. I’m not sure “firestorm” is adequate to describe what happens when that many people find out they have been intentionally lied to and sold a bill of goods just to line someones pockets.
Larry
Here are two videos of Rajendra Pachauri using the Himalayan glacier melt story as a primary talking point in April 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYHgyrmXK3Y
Here is an article about how Rajendra Pachauri “signed a memorandum of understanding to study, preserve and safeguard the Himalayan glaciers under the National Mission of Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system.” on behalf of TERI in April 2009:
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/09/stories/2009040950490200.htm
And here is an amazingly prescient Christian Science Monitor “April Fools” article from April 2009:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2009/0401/scientists-worldwide-admit-global-warming-is-a-hoax
blastzilla (20:54:06) :
The Australian PM is not in favour with the Indians at mo. due to visiting Indian students being targeted for violence. They blame the PM for not doing enough to protect the students.
So the video showing Pachauri and Rudd together is “guilt by association”. It’s designed to show Pachauri in the worst light possible.
Craig (20:51:55) :
“Climategate, for many people, showed that it was possible that some climate scientists were fudging their data. Now it’s shown that the IPCC was doing the same.”
Actually Craig, Climategate is about IPCC climate “scientists”. Jones, the central person in the Climategate emails has been associated with the IPCC since its beginnings. Briffa and Mann and several others in the emails were authors of significant parts of the IPCC reports.
I must say though that I too am amazed that the press, at least in Britain, are now vigorously digging into the scandalous level of hyperbole that has been dressed up as science by the IPCC and its green allies.
I hope he stays a while – the storys are good and getting better – if he leaves he just disappears, he should stay and keep digging the hole deeper.
Typo – “not to distant” should be “not too distant.” You must have a keyboard like mine!
It seems to me that we owe a world of thanks to many people. Of course, there are the likes of Anthony, Steve and their kindred spirits who have labored all these years for truth and justice and their blogs. Well done gang.
They (and a few media types) kept the fires burning and then Deepthroat leaked the CRU files.
Despite the diligence of climate realists (like Anthony, Steve, et al ) and a few realistic journalists, one wonders if any of the current events would have taken place without the CRU leaks. The media have softened up and Climategate got their attention and now the media is reporting these fast-developing stories.
We are all deeply indebted to Deepthroat in CRU or wherever he or she is.
I await tomorrow’s revelations. ☺
Clive
How about a vote for the next chairman?
There are some intriguing possible candidates – who are probably already lobbying…Gavin Schmidt, Phil Jones (currently available), Rod Blagojevich, various British ex-MPs with moats, about 20,000 climatologists looking to sure up their funding, …..Al Gore….
Would anyone who could restore credibility actually want the job at this point?
In the video Panchauri says he was “elected with acclamation”. But that is a very poor defence of what is happening now. His time is surely running out, but journalists must look into the circular consensual culture of the IPCC and see that Panchauri’s removal is only the start an investigation into this organisation that pretends to be scientific, but is really only an advocacy.
There seems to be an epidemic todya of the “My loss really means I won” mentality. Denial has experienced exponential growth!
“TA (21:26:37) :
How about a vote for the next chairman?”
Joe Romm or Gavin. They are best at keeping unwanted discussion at bay.
Isn’t this precisely what Mr Gore has been doing ….. and he’s considered a hero? Perhaps the difference being: Al is never subjected to the glaring, questioning spotlight that is growing on Pachauri. But if the E M Smith story gains traction, could Al’s cozy relationship with Hansen produce the same outcome? I have my fingers crossed. What a colossal story. A giant conspiracy to defraud every nation on earth, and rob the wealth of every western nation. And beloved scientists and politicians all, complicit in the deception.
I think I’ve been censored by the spam filter… and I didnt even get in any profanities. …