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.
more at Climate Audit
In the wake of the climategate, other scandals and the latest howler, people are always calling for Pachauri’s head. I think he’s more useful to the skeptic cause where he is. He’s politically inept, arrogant and doesn’t do the joined up thinking you’d expect of someone heading up a large international organization.
You never know, if he’s fired he may be replaced by someone who knows what the’re doing. He’s too good a liability to them to be removed from the board.
Pointman
Point a true believer towards any genuine scientific data which doesn’t support the IPCC agenda and they will reflexively state that the data was produced by this or that evil corporation and is therefore corrupt.
These same true believers very often decry any mention of religious teachings and especially anything Christian.
There’s a good reason for that. They can’t bear to examine the hypocrisies of their own lives, ala Matthew 7:5.
jcrabb says:
June 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm
“Meanwhile the Arctic hits record lows.”
…uhhh…since 1979, which is the current estimated age of the Earth according to Warmistas like Mr. Crabb – who likewise has similarly acknowledged RECORD HIGHS in the recent past (particularly in Antarctica)…
jcrabb says:
June 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Meanwhile the Arctic hits record lows.
Ah, the good reliable warmist method we all love: when under attack on a legitimate issue, change the subject.
As a matter of record you are doubtfully true: it depends which record you look at. As if records only going back a few decades are that useful in what is, after all, only a proxy for global warming anyway.
More importantly you are pushing the wrong barrow entirely. We know the world is warming. It has been for centuries now. Far longer than industrial CO2 can be blamed for it. You need to show that the warming is both accelerating (which will be difficult) and is unbearable for us to manage (which will be impossible, I suggest).
Arctic ice is, frankly, a major nuisance: preventing shipping and fishing. If it melts the world will be better off. If that is the worst effect of global warming, then it is going to be a breeze.
The best place that I have found is at:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/category/ipcc/
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/category/climate-bible/ipcc-insiders-in-their-own-words/
Meanwhile I was about to post THIS link concerning Pachauri having set up GloriOil and being the scientific advisor when I noticed that his entry has now VANISHED! Does anyone know what happened?
[GloriOil is a residual oil extraction company – it enables big oil companies to extract the last remaining amounts of oil in fields that would otherwise have been abandoned.]
Here are Pachauri’s oil and other affiliations – past and present
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners
Further to my last comment – here is Pachauri’s earlier entry on Google cache. He is shown as being it’s founder and scientific advisor.
If the IPCC dig their hole any deeper they will find a new form of global warming, the one provided by hell…
A complete and utter disgrace. What a waste.
Pachauri!!, Geez, what a Weiner!
Pachauri sure has a unique way of saying “go to hell”.
Alvin W says:
June 18, 2011 at 10:42 pm
“Did he mean to say, ‘retroactively;?”
I’m sure that’s what he meant to say. It was either a Freudian slip or he’s a moron or some combination thereof.
Perhaps Pachauri has become a double agent. His mission? To destroy the IPCC.
The IPCC needs to disband.
Can I respectfully suggest a great one liner for our new aspirational Septic Blather?
“We are not in a crisis we are only in some difficulties and these will be solved”
You see it’s the World Game they’re playing and you ignorant plebs just cannot understand the rules of your new cognoscenti. Only the Fourth Estate can comprehend the superior ways of your betters and pay them their due homage.
Infuriating but I take some comfort in Napoleon’s advice, “Never interrupt your adversary when he is busy making a mistake.” Things that cannot go on, won’t. The corruption and deception are being exposed (thank you WUWT, thank you Web) and voters and taxpayers are wising up. So, while we can try to shift Pachauri from his perch through tough questions and hot letters to government officials, we can also just enjoy the spectacle of him proving our point that power corrupts, and a corrupt policy about COI is worse than no policy at all. It’s the cover-up that gets them in the end. Pachauri is to IPCC as Anthony Weiner has been to the Democrats in the US Congress. The longer he does his dance, the less credible the whole enterprise becomes.
Are you sure??? See here, here, here or here.
Next time say on the instrumental record which began in 1979. In the meantime temperature in the Arctic is at it’s instrumental historic average. Consider soot, because the arch Warmist Dr. James Hansen has with his paper titled Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos. There are other papers too. ;O)
I meant:
“……..Arctic is at its instrumental…..”
It’s a good thing India and China haven’t fallen for this scam. If they had, the IPCC would have already reverted us to an agrarian world where our agrarian existence would allow our world leaders to live as Gods.
Ross says:
June 18, 2011 at 11:56 pm
“……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 ?”
I agree. I’m a Canadian. We have a majority Conservative Governnment now, but they are unlikely to withdraw from the UN.
I say that the US and all G8s, should stop funding the UN/IPCC and kick the whole UN out of the USA.
I understand that Dubai has a lot of real estate that the UN could fill up.[Out of sight; out of mind].
And— let them finance their own excessiveness on useless projects.
I’m not holding my breath, tho.
for Ross from Aus: what you say makes perfect sense, but we have to get rid of Obama and the Dem’s first. They are true, true believers and cannot be converted, only defeated. This is because they see themselves as benefited both politically and personally from the so-called “Green Agenda”, and thus they have chosen to go down with the ship, so to speak, before they will back off.
That’s why this is, in the end, a political matter, not a scientific one. That’s why Pachouri can say and do anything he wants without fear, he is the representative of a politico-religious faction that dare not ever admit that he can do any wrong. All of this nonsense is driven by money, and the money is directed by politics. The answer to everything comes down to politics. Everything else is incidental. That’s where the battle will be fought, and that’s where it will either be won or be lost.
If the IPCC thinks they are scientifically and intellectually untouchable, then that means they have already sealed up their echo chamber along with their political and green sympathizers inside. The IPCC needs to contact reality instead of hiding in their echo chamber. They should look out the windows . . . . they will be dismayed to see that independent thinkers have already touched them in the most critically decisive areas!
The IPCC should be abandoned . . . . hope the USA is the first to do so.
John
IPCC chairman Pachauri, hell the entire IPCC apparatus is a self inflicting wound on the integrity of science.
I don’t think he knows the truth anymore, knows that his actions and immorality have consequences. He appears to live in this “I’m a do-gooder” bubble that he believes protects him from doing anything wrong as long as he believes it is for a good cause.
If I was a real, honest Climatologist, I’d bail on the the IPCC so fast to protect my reputation.
If I wasn’t a real, honest Climatologist, I’d keep riding the IPCC Gravy Train because it supplies my fix for Fame & Funding.
Climatologists around the world need to realize – we are watching your actions because they are the key to your soul, not the pious words coming out of your mouth.
They’re all crooks.
The IPCC has established limits to integrity.
I am sure they will preface their upcoming report with something like “…conflict of interest has not been filtered from the current results…” And if they don’t, we have Pachauri’s own words to quote. The man just keeps on giving don’t he.
Pachauri is formally acknowledging that the AR5 report will contain numerous conflict of interest violations. He is quite content, to leave it to us, to root out the suspect material. So he (IPCC) is offering to the world, a very expensive Easter egg hunt. Is there a prize for finding the green eggs covered in gold $$$ signs.
I would love it if the winner gets to personally lock Pachauri into a jail cell and retain the golden key. GK