There’s so much climate news going on I’ve been derelict in keeping this feature up.
This QOTW is from our friend and WUWT contributor Willis Eschenbach who writes:
I just got my 29 January 2010 copy of Science Magazine, which contains an interview with Rajendra K. Pachauri, the future ex-Chairman of the IPCC. In it, he gives the following astounding answer:
Q: Has all that has happened this winter dented the credibility of IPCC?R.K.P.: I don’t think the credibility of the IPCC can be dented. If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?
Why indeed? …
Willis Eschenbach (22:54:43) :
“You can tell when Gavin is lying because his lips are moving.”
Love the old ones….Coffee a over the keyboard again! BTW…Nice post.
Everyone should look at John from MN’s link here.
I don’t have sufficient science to know if this guy is correct, but if he is, then the whole IPCC mesh of untruths and half truths falls apart.
You will know when Pachauri is about to get pushed, he will play the race card – bet on it.
Hah! Pauchauri switches to reverse Polish logic. Neat!
“Here’s the outcome, now what’s the question?
“Who needs an intricate web to weave
When suckers are ready to believe?”
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
Lucy Skywalker (01:33:50) :
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
“Euripedes?”
“No, I justa pulla dem apart.”
Tom Crowley, CRU emails:
… with respect to the MWP all you have to do is plot the data up and compile them – the numbers don’t work out as being warmer than the present – at best approaching or slightly exceeding mid-20th c.
Good post Willis. Given the overhyped global temperature rise ‘adjustments’ compared to individual stations and many ‘adjusted’ countries, as warm as mid century (before co2 rise accelerated) is just fine. Loehle comes in a bit above, Crowley comes in a bit below.
What’s not to like? 🙂
Schmidt can’t look straight at the camera when he’s lying, check the footage. It shows there’s a conscience in there… somewhere.
R.K.P.: “I don’t think the credibility of the IPCC can be dented. If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?”
Brilliant. But the same ‘logic’ has been used by AGW alarmists for years.
we have to do something about global warming!
why?
because we risk disaster!
how do we know we risk disaster?
because all scientists agree!
what about sceptics?
they’re crackpots!
but look at this sceptic who is qualified, in the field, and has a valid point, so maybe we’re not facing disaster?
he’s just being irresponsible!
why?
because he’s trying to raise doubts which would only lead us to fail to act in the face of disaster!
but if he’s right, then we’re not facing disaster?
i don’t think someone so irresponsible is worth listening to!
erm….??
That is hilarious. We should clearly abolish the IPCC so’s we don’t have to worry about it any more. Likewise, since the science is settled, our govt won’t have to form a new multi-trillion department or tax us out of prosperity.
Laz, you almost caused a liquid meets keyboard and screen error buddy… I was thinking of him as Larry, Hansen as Curly, and Algore as Moe, but Pinky & the Brain will do..
Lazarus Long (18:32:22) :
Here’s a quote of the same high intellectual level:
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“I think so, Brain, but this time you put the trousers on the chimp.”
The fit hits the Shan.
Martin Parry, the scientist behind the IPCC report that falsely claimed the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, has dismissed the furore over the errors as “a clamour without substance”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7241093/IPCC-scientist-dismisses-furore-over-climate-change-report.html
Have they no shame?
this is a comment from Pachuari’ own blog.
sunil clearly loves him at least, but i’m not sure he’s in the same leaque personally, what with the comb over and all:
Jesus Christ – crucified
Socrates – poisoned
Mahatma Gandhi – shot
Archimedes- killed by a Roman soldier who did not know who Archimedes was.
Copernicus – criticized
Galileo -convicted
Edgar Allan Poe – found dead in a street – buried unceremoniously in an unmarked grave- HONORED 100YRS LATER.
Vincent van Gogh – shot himself. COULD NOT SELL EVEN A SINGLE PAINTING WHILE ALIVE.
Abraham Lincoln – Shot
R K Pachauri – being grilled FOR MAKING EFFORTS TO SAVE EARTH.
This is KALYUG.
When shall we learn. Wake up before it is too late.
Have courage & conviction to support a good cause.
– sunil
Pachauri / IPCC / Credibility / Dent ??
Incredible stories of amazing science turned out to be he said/she said conversations.
Credibility of zero cannot be dented.
Or, in other words, you cannot sink a ship that already lies on the bottom.
If there is enough room to include a few imperfections about Himalayan glaciers, then there is enough room to include alternative hypothesis like the cosmic ray connection.
Who are the denialists now?
What a stupid question to ask if the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change. Of course we would. Man has been concerned with climate change ever since the Great Flood. I suppose AGW alarmists are still making the wrong assumption that climate change only started since the industrial age. Are they idiots or something?
It’s worse than we thought.
Here’s what I posted at RealClimate: (I don’t expect it to survive Gavin’s knife, but it’s totally accurate):
“Yo, Gavin.
I certainly don’t expect a public display of this post but let me make one point absolutley clear:
The position you and other charlatans have taken on the Mideval Warming Period is your undoing, especially in light of recent revelations by your pal and co-conspiritor Phil Jones.
The tide is turning and you’re going to be washed up in science.
You, sir, are a dishonest scientist.
But have a good day!”
Dave (03:25:46) :this is a comment from Pachuari’ own blog
Dave….Ebay has the same sort of problem with selling orginal Gibson Les Paul Guitars and some big name golf clubs sets…Imagine, it must be the same as Wiki/RC being a reliable source!
Oh dear, I think that Pachauri has a few cogs loose. However, perhaps you need someone like him in charge of the IPCC lunatic asylum?
Quote of next week?
“Knowledge is power, so the IPCC has none.”
That seem to be the same “rational” reasoning Joss Garman uses in the guardian today.
He start with,
“There’s an incredibly powerful movement opposed to action on climate change.”
And pretty much end with,
“The most zealous deniers, a subculture of outlandish paranoid conspiracy theorists,”
I don’t know which is worst though the zealot who is a paranoid conspiracy theorist but knows (s)he is paranoid and a conspiracy theorist, or the zealot that obviously lack self awareness of being equally mental.
This man should be a comedian.
He made me laugh more than I did all last year.
Such delusions of grandeur, such a lack of understanding in how his comments would be interpreted, such arrogance not think about that either……
Shame………
This isn’t the quote of the week.
This has to be the quote of the year – if not the decade.
Out of the mouths of babes!
tokyoboy (19:54:38) : “Was He sane when He was answering??”
You may have something here. Perhaps he was setting up his insanity defense.
No one in their right mind ………
And yet despite all the skeltons coming out of the closet, CSIRO still believes in the CAGW mantr.
Appologies for spelling mistakes