Telegraph: India forms new climate change body

I should have watched the video all the way through. Arrrrrggggg! My apologies to magicjava.

Strange, written after the warmest yearin
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990803&slug=2975327

“Exactly 1,140 inches – that’s 95 feet – of snow fell on the Mount Baker Ski Area from July 1, 1998, through June 30, the most ever measured in the United States in a single season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced yesterday.
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While it is considered a “verifiable amount” of snowfall, the record comes with an asterisk. Experts believe more snow falls in the Himalayas, but no one is there to measure it.”

Draw your own conclusion.

I wouldn’t go out and celebrate just yet. India had come to dominate the politics of international Cricket by exploiting third world prejudices and is not averse to using this position to gain unfair advantage on field through the use of bullying and intimidation of officials and the judicial process. Typically, false accusations (eg of racism) are used to defend its teams actions (ball tampering or illegal technique) in much the same way that say “hide the decline” is now an accepted as a “scientific” technique in some quarters.
I would say this is about as sincere as the Guardian turning sceptical. What’s in it for them and “follow the money” come to mind.

[quote Hank Hancock (11:53:01) :]
I should have watched the video all the way through. Arrrrrggggg! My apologies to magicjava. [/quote]
We’re cool. 😉

I think we should be careful what we wish for, when we demand Dr Pachauri’s resignation.
Dr Pachauri is doing a great job…for us. He is single-handedly exposing to the public the true nature of the IPCC’s flawed process of incompetence, arrogance, bullying and financial self-interest.
A cleverer untarnished replacement chief will probably do an internal review, find and correct a few more errors and then declare the IPCC process to be fixed, and the science again unchallengeable.

Press Release
IPCC to be renamed PCCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the UN’s body for the promotion of Anthropogenic Global Warming will in future be known as the PCCC (Pachauri’s Climate Comedy Club).
The re-branding exercise is an attempt to capitalise on recent events that have turned the organisation from a world leader in climate research into a laughing stock.
Rajinda Pachauri said “it’s an old adage ‘laugh and the world will laugh with you’. Well over the last few weeks the world has been laughing at us so we thought it best to capitalise on the situation. In fact the sceptics have been splitting their sides with laughter so we know we have really been touching a nerve.
“For many years we have been writing horror stories and scare stories and no matter how much doom mongering the stories contain, people seem to less and less engaged with the problem of AGW. Recently people have been opening Sunday Papers and pissing themselves with laughter. The coverage has been wall to wall. In fact we have had more press coverage since in January than in the whole of 2009. So in future we will push a softer line and use comedy and hilarious one-liners (formally known as ‘errors’ by alarmists!!!!) within our reports to try and re-engage the worlds population with the problem.
‘With immediate effect my new job title will be Chief Jester ITCOBK-m (In The Court of Ban Ki-moon) and the PCCC will be a key ministry within Ban Ki-moon’s new World Government which will be announced shortly. Ban will be the first Global President and I am delighted that he has asked me to take on this key new role.”
Serving under Pachy will be a dedicated team of Director Jesters, but most importantly, the teams of climate scientists and academics that currently create all the horror stories and the ‘end of the world is nigh’ stories, will be replaced by teams of elite comedy writers (Sub-Jesters) to really maximise the humour that can be incorporated in future PCCC reports. Cutting one liners and witty riposte will the order of the day, replacing all the doom mongering and alarmism.
In a laconic mood Pachy went on (and on)…..
“In fact as it was Ban who suggested the re-branding. I proposed that we should call the new organisation ‘The Moonies’ in deference to our new World President. But Ban made it absolutely clear that he did not want us to be confused with any other pseudo religious cults, and he was very happy that I put my name to it.
“Ban also suggested that as all heads of the great Offices of State usually have a costume to wear for great occasions and that I should create an outfit that both defined the role, and was instantly recognisable around the world. I chose a take on the traditional buffoons outfit of a multi-coloured suit with matching hat and shoes. Initial quotes for the suit were quite shocking – I have a policy of wearing only $1000 suits! But after some heated discussion I managed negotiate from initial quote of $150 up to something I as more comfortable with. I would have worn the outfit today but my Bond Street milliners in London have let me down badly on delivery. They blame it on the late delivery of the three bells which sit atop of each of the three points on the hat. I think it is disgraceful that they have tried to blame others for what is essentially, their mistake. I find this sort of finger pointing nothing short of shocking.
The Love Guru continued:
“Of course not knowing exactly how warm it will be in future years, it was difficult to design a single outfit that could be comfortably worn for millennia by my successors. So to cover all possible climate probabilities I have also designed a superbly colourful Court Jesters mankini, a male take on the traditional bikini, with bells in places you can only imagine! I am hoping to be out of office before temperatures get high enough to wear that little ensemble. If I do, I’ll be keeping my back to the wall I can tell you LOL.
“In all seriousness though (if that does not contradict my new role) you can use these sorts of historical costumes, that are still worn today, as very accurate temperature proxies. Take for instance the Speaker of the British House of Commons. He wares very thick undergarments, heavy jacket and heavy gown, stockings and a wig – clothes for a cold climate. Such regalia would never have been worn if the climate was warm. In my opinion is ample proof for the sceptics Medieval Warm Period never existed. In fact I have suggested to Michael Mann that he use these new costume temperature proxies in his next PCCC report. Michael admitted that the idea had never crossed his mind.”
Pachy also confided that Ban Ki-moon had asked for his advice on the location of the two new United Nations palaces that will soon be constructed to house the new World President:
“Obviously as the world’s leading expert on climate change, Ban Ki-moon wanted some idea on the very best locations to build his palaces. I suggested a Summer Palace on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is land already occupied by the UN. Future summers will so hot at normal longitudes (sic) so this will be a fantastic location thermostically (sic) and quite private too – The UN has long declared that the peasants scratching out a living on an overheated world will need a licence to enter Antarctica. I painted a picture in Bans’ mind that he could arrive just before the penguins fly to the North Pole on their annual migration. He could spend the rest of the summer feeding the last few remaining polar bears that of course have roamed free on Antarctica for millennia. I think I sold it to him if I’m honest. For his Winter Palace I suggested the thin strip of land that the UN also owns on Cypress, in the east Mediterranean, called the Green Zone. In most parts this is only 4 meters wide but we have, over the years, managed to widen parts of it up 7 KM wide – so it’s ideal both in terms of winter climate and privacy for such an opulent pad. Of course these palaces will be funded by proceeds of the Carbon and Vapour Trading Schemes we have previously outlined.
Finally Pachauri said:
“I am very pleased and honoured that Ban has offered me this new role. I started out as a simple Railway Engineer and now look at me, I am a simple Climate Scientist, or at least that’s what I tell people. Anyway, unlike climatology there was really no humour to be had as a Railway Engineering.” Asked what his area of expertise was in that field his reply was terse, “Bogies.”
Ends

Anthony, you and Dennis have a mention in the Guardian:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacking-leaks

According to this they have pulled out!
“In India the claims have heightened tensions between Dr Pachauri and the government, which had earlier questioned his assessment. In autumn, Jairam Ramesh, its environment minister, said that some glaciers were actually advancing despite global warming.
Dr Pachauri had dismissed the government’s claims as “voodoo science”, but on Thursday night Mr Ramesh effectively marginalized the IPCC chairman even further.
He announced that the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s “third ice cap”, and an “Indian IPCC” to use climate science to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country.
He said: “[The] IPCC doesn’t do the original research which is one of the weaknesses.?.?. they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/India+forms+breakaway+climate+change+body/2522820/story.html

It’s interesting for those of us who were around 20/25 years ago (can it really be that long?) to reflect on the great AIDS panic and to compare it with this one.
We were assured that if we had sex with anyone (even a regular partner or spouse) without using a condom we would quickly be toast, taking a lot of people with us. The hysteria from Govt (here in the UK at least, led by the Chief Scientific Advisor), and from the MSM, was incredible (literally, to those of us who stopped to think why certain sexual or social practices were resulting the spread of the disease). Armageddon was just round the corner. I was still quite, er, active in those days and came in for a great deal of flak as I insisted people were falling for a load of rubbish.
The UN of course refuses to censor those African leaders who omit to take obvious steps to protect their populations from HIV, and indeed deny the realities in faovur of mad theories about Western conspiracy, inter alia. Consequently the poor die in their millions from a largely preventable disease. Meanwhile, the pandemic in the West never happened (and like the ozone hole, and the new little ice agem, is never mentioned).
No wonder the old grow cynical!