{"id":225745,"date":"2010-01-25T05:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4964"},"modified":"2010-01-25T05:53:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:53:43","slug":"pachauri-must-resign-at-once-as-head-of-official-climate-science-panel-by-geoffrey-lean-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225745","title":{"rendered":"Pachauri must resign at once as head of official climate science panel by Geoffrey Lean, The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: Geoffrey Lean<\/a><\/p>\n

It is time for the embattled Rajendra Pachauri to resign as Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). He is steadfastly refusing to go, but his position is becoming more and more untenable by the day, and the official climate science body will continue to leach credibility while he remains in charge.<\/p>\n

When on Friday I wrote for my Daily Telegraph column (published yesterday<\/a>) that he was \u201cat best one more blunder away from having to resign\u201d, I did not expect other errors to come to light quite so fast. But, as I blogged yesterday, four more have now been reported from the part of the latest IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers that contained the notorious \u2013 and now withdrawn – claim that they would disappear by 2035. And there are now reports that it erred in relying on an unpublished report in linking natural disasters like flood and hurricanes to global warming. All appear much less serious than the original Himalayan howler, but they add to the impression of sloppiness at the IPCC.<\/p>\n

Pachauri\u2019s reaction to the original revelation was widely reported to be that he claimed to have \u201cabsolutely no responsibility\u201d for the mistake. But \u2013 leaving aside the obvious fact that, as Chairman, he is ultimately responsible for the content and standards of the report \u2013 he is himself rapidly emerging as much more of an issue than even a few errors in the 3000 word document. Much of his trouble, rightly, stems from his outrageous reaction to an Indian paper late last year which suggested that the glaciers were not vanishing quickly \u2013 dismissing it as \u201cvoodoo science\u201d and adding, hubristically: \u201cWe have a very clear idea of what is happening in the Himalayas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click soure to read FULL article by Geoffrey Lean<\/p>\n

Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n

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