In an interview with the Times, John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK suggests that the IPCC needs a new chairman other than The Love Guru. But, in a recent press release, it looks like the IPCC is digging in their collective Nobel Laureate heels. Meanwhile, news of newspaper clippings in IPCC AR4 peer reviewed research.
With quotes like these coming from Pachy, he’s quickly running out of supporters who have been looking past his blown credibility. Here’s a quote from the Love Guru himself in a Financial Times interview today:
(h/t to Andrew Bolt for that one) Send in the clowns! Maybe he’s referring to the makeover suggested by the National Post?
John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK , said that Dr Pachauri should have acted as soon as he had been informed of the error, even though issuing a correction would have embarrassed the IPCC on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit.
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The IPCC needed a new chairman who would hold public confidence by introducing more rigorous procedures, Mr Sauven said. “The IPCC needs to regain credibility. Is that going to happen with Pachauri [as chairman]? I don’t think so. We need someone held in high regard who has extremely good judgment and is seen by the global public as someone on their side.
“If we get a new person in with an open mind, prepared to fundamentally review how the IPCC works, we would regain confidence in the organisation.”
Read more at the Times
Among the animals that eat their own kind: the ratsnake, sliverfish, the spadefoot toad, giant squid, hermit crabs, the praying mantis, snails and slugs, catfish, piranas…
R. Gates: I’ve made a couple of posts today about how people can actually bet over the Internet on your belief that 2010 will be THE warmest on record and that things will get much hotter in the coming decade. My posts are in the last quarter of this thread:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/03/ipcc-fires-back-challenges-are-without-foundation/#comment-308773
Monckton suggested it, when the infection was in its early stages and might have been nipped in the bud. He’s since conceded that it would be impractical now, but he defends his suggestion by saying that it would have worked then.
Cuba has a quarantine policy.
The Heartland institute, and other free market institutes, have criticized second-hand smoke legislation as being an unjustified extrapolation from findings of second-hand smoke affecting spouses of smokers. This has been turned into a smear that they “deny the link between smoking and cancer.”
In addition, Lindzen, who smokes, does deny the link between smoking and cancer, and I think I read somewhere that Singer not only believes that but also helped the tobacco industry make that claim way back when. (Please correct my errors.)
Ref – Roger Knights (10:36:55) :
“India’s setting up of its own Climate Commission, and its veiled threat to withdraw from the IPCC, are (I think) intended to provide the push to get Pachauri out. I think the push will be successful. The UN can’t ignore it.”
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Think you’re correct on all but: “The UN can’t ignore it.” They’ve been doing pretty well so far. I don’t think they have a clue what’s happening, nor do I think they care about anything except (perhaps) tonight’s menu and the ballet and their escourt’s ensamble. Remember, these people think they’re the crem d’la crem d’la crem of the Earth. What India or anyone else thinks is of no concern to them a’tall.
Instead of a new IPCC chairman the world needs to dismantle the UN bureaucracy and the UN itself. Period.
The “sages” speak out:
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.”
– Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.”
– Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
With no insinuations intended politically regarding Pachauri, it was the case that the Allied command during WW2, especially just after D-day, were not all that keen on plots to assassinate Hitler: he was a hopelessly blundering military commander and was, because of this, regarded as an asset to the Allied war effort.
Cream of Gumbo soup, more like.