Gobsmacking arrogance from Pachauri as reported by Steve McIntyre at his Climate Audit blog. Steve writes:
Yesterday, IPCC chairman Pachauri told Oliver Morton of The Economist at an IPCC event in Brussels that conflict of interest policies would not not apply to AR5 authors. IPCC thereby sabotaged recommendations from the Interacademy Council and announced its plans to evade the conflict of interest policies passed at the 33rd IPCC plenary only a month ago.
The Pachauri Interview
Here’s what Pachauri said in response to Oliver Morton
– see Morton’s interesting blog article here:
B: Are you happy with the IPCC’s new conflict-of-interest policy? [adopted at the panel’s recent plenary]
RP: Absolutely. I must say that was a very heartening piece of work. People put in a lot of effort to come up with what I think is a very robust policy in terms of conflict of interest.
B: At what point should it start to apply?
RP: It’s applicable right away. Of course if you look at conflict of interest with respect to authors who are there in the 5th Assessment Report we’ve already selected them and therefore it wouldn’t be fair to impose anything that sort of applies retrospectively.
All sorts of editorial responses spring to mind (one of which is that, in transcription, Pachauri sure sounds like Acton of East Anglia.) But first let’s follow some backstory – through the IAC Report and the COI policy adopted at the 33rd IPCC plenary.
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I’d hand ’em a shovel so they can dig themselves in deeper but they’re doing just fine without my help.
It would be an unreasonable burden to actually apply their new standards, as opposed to just touting them. IPCC will, I’m sure, publish those conflicts of interest to ensure transparency.
IPCC: Sporting a new coat of two-sided paint.
He’s so happy with his robust policy, he’s already found an exception to his new rules.
Of course he can be arrogant, he can’t be fired.
Humanity’s demand for job security is actually a demand for permission to be lazy.
It doesn’t really matter what Pachauri says. He will continue to peddle his nonsense while the world turns. All that really matter is what the democratically elected governments of the world say. Canada and Japan are leading the revolution. The US knows the writing is on the wall and Australia will fully turn soon enough. Europe cannot stand on its own and will fragment …… then it will be over.
Did he mean to say, ‘retroactively;?
They are so insulated in their “special” universe that nothing they do cannot be rationalized.
Meanwhile the Arctic hits record lows.
“Four legs good, two legs better.” Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm.’
Change of Game plan.
And why is this clown, Pachauri, still in this position?
And there’s that word again – “robust”. Just what does it really mean to them?
Pachauri said, “it wouldn’t be fair to impose anything that sort of applies retrospectively.”
Now, where in heck does fairness come into play when you are a UN body supposedly responsible for shaping countries’ policies?
Aw, gee, somebody might get their feelings hurt when they cannot contribute to Propaganda AR5 because they are either making a fortune off related green investments, are a green energy lobbyist, or they are funded by green activist organizations.
I posted this question over at CA:
Is there anybody out there who could succinctly put the history of all the errors, corruption, ignoring IAC recommendations and conflict of interest etc that Steve has revealed about the IPCC into say a couple of pages? In the UK, for example we could send it to our MPs and get questions asked in parliament about why our Government still believes in the IPCC and why it should base its policies on the IPCC reports.
There is no point in us all separately spending hours pulling something together.
Why isn’t there a campaign for Americans to lobby your government to help reduce your nation’s budget problems by withdrawing from financially supporting the IPCC ?
Remove American money and the gravy train stops – worthwhile lobbying and absolutely no loss to the world.
In a few years the debate should be settled anyway and if necessary we can all panic – or not.
The IPCC hasn’t kicked a goal – except own goals – in its entire existence.
The IPCC is unlikely to have any major impact in achieving any climate action with countries that matter like the US,China,Russia etc so it is simply an expensive junket for an exclusive membership.
Doesn’t sound like the American way to me – taking from your country but not contributing – but I’m from Aus. so what would I know?
What else? Does anyone here believe their gesticulations? These are acting like politicians caught the hand in the cookie jar and who managed to find judges to claim that next time -if caught- they may get a reprimand…
Doug in Seattle says:
June 18, 2011 at 10:59 pm
“And there’s that word again – “robust”. Just what does it really mean to them?”
Depends Doug, are we talking about an IPCC report or another of Pachauri soft porn novels?
It’s like someone going to an optician and being prescribed glasses and then telling an exam instructor: “Yes I need glasses to see, but as I booked the test before I was prescribed the glasses I don’t think I need them for the test”.
What arrogance! What stupidity! They may as well write: “we’re corrupt” on the cover of the report for all the good it will do them now. There will be a lot of well intentioned people acting with integrity to produce the report and all their work will be wasted. Worse, they will all be tarred with the same “corrupt” brush.
Who polices the IPCC anyway, or are they just a loose cannon?
The IPCC needs a few more shovel ready projects so they can dig themselves a deeper hole.
@Jeremy
“Humanity’s demand for job security is actually a demand for permission to be lazy”
One of the most profound statements I’ve read in a long time.
Ross says:
June 18, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Spot On, Ross!
Unfortunately, the US of A is still controlled politically by the progressive socialists: Our Dear Leader – Barack Obama, Senile Majority Leader – Harry Reid, and other exhibitionist socialist Weiners. Add at least another 40 or so spineless RINOs (Republican In Name Only) in the House of Representatives and we find ourselves without the support necessary to cut off funding for this travesty known as the UN-IPCC et.al. The UN-IPCC serves the Obama agenda to destroy the capability for inexpensive US energy production well, hence no driving force to kill the funding until the progressive socialists can be defeated. There is a determined conservative political movement striving to wrest control from the socialists, however. The ill conceived and executed progressive socialist ‘stimulus’ programs that have run up huge US deficits, threaten to bankrupt our nation, and have done nothing to lower out national unemployment rates are (slowly) convincing the majority of our nation that socialism is the wrong path and we must change. That may bode well, as the local, state, and federal elections slated for Nov 2012 will determine this issue….. and many others.
Pray for us……..
This is the blogosphere at it’s finest, and makes me proud of getting Steve setup with a blog in the first place – bringing attention to bureaucrats who would defy the democratic wishes of the people who pay them.
I predict that AR5 will be the most investigated and crowd-reviewed report ever, and it will be the last of it’s line. If Canada, Japan and Russia won’t be signing on to any successor to Kyoto, and the US, China and Pachauri’s own India refusing to even consider carbon dioxide controls, the only people promoting AR5 will be the NGOs who stand to make the most money.
But why is anyone surprised at this?
It is self-evident that the IPCC is a corrupt, self-serving organisation.
Given all the facts, you would have to be a very strange person indeed to believe in the integrity of Pachauri and his parasite organisation TERI.
As for the KPMG whitewash of Pachauri – I just read the entire document – there is no mention of the value of facilities provided to him by TERI, basically he has set up TERI to be run in the same way as one of those weird American religious cults, where the self-appointed leaders live a life of unbelievable luxury.
These UN people are taking our money and laughing in our face.
Facts, scientific method, integrity, conscience? Pachauri and his team don’t know what these words mean. In their primordial world of corruption, everything — not only the laws of men but also the laws of Nature — is some kind of verbal con, an easy game to win black limousines, best restaurants, and totally brainwashed young women who groan “Global warming is real!” even while having orgasms.
Until the time comes to sue them and to put them in jail, laugh at them.
Laughter is the most effective weapon of the disarmed and robbed.
Rectospectively raw-bust I-Pee-Choo-Choo my donkey!
Everyone who reads the above statement understands that the AR5 has no COI policies applied – HOWEVER – the other 99.9999% of the world will be told (by the MSM) that the AR5 can be trusted because the IPCC has had a COI policy from *before* the AR5 was put together – which means the public is duped into believing that the AR5 is all OK and above board. We must get Pauchari’s comment distributed widely and constantly, otherwise we will lose!