{"id":297417,"date":"2010-02-09T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2010-02-09T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:00:45","slug":"new-york-times-trots-out-same-old-climate-skeptics-for-attack-on-ipcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297417","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Trots Out Same Old Climate Skeptics for Attack on IPCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6191\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ragendra_Pachauri.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6191\" title=\"Rajendra Pachauri\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ragendra_Pachauri-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajendra Pachauri: A man maligned<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/science\/earth\/09climate.html?hp\">waded back<\/a> into the IPCC debate today, with a piece about Rajendra K. Pachauri that can be effectively summed up as \u201cwe\u2019re not saying he did anything wrong, we\u2019re just saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing the article gets right: there have been an series of attacks on the U.N.&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that started <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/11\/global-warming-skeptics-find-proof-of-climate-change-lies-in-stolen-climate-research-emails\/\">after the release of the Climatic Research Unit emails<\/a> and then moved on to the incorrect claim about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting.<\/p>\n<p>Now Pachauri is being targeted for doing some consulting work on the side, for which he personally receives no remuneration. Pachauri&#8217;s critics themselves are a predictable group, notable only for their consistent desire to discredit anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6190\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who is just to the right of Oklahoma\u2019s James Inhofe on climate science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lord Monckton, who branded a group of US Youth delegates to the Copenhagen climate summit the \u201cHitler Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0the Sunday Telegraph, that employer of fine climate journalists such as <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/11\/q-and-a-on-copenhagen-and-the-climate-research-unit-emails\/\">James Delingpole<\/a>, who decided that the mere existence of the CRU emails was Ipso Facto proof that climate change is a crock.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn\u2019t want to discredit her own source but isn\u2019t this sort of like asking Jennifer Aniston for her assessment of Angelina Jolie\u2019s career?<\/p>\n<p>Pachauri, if anything, comes across as humble (this man made a $49,000 salary last year? That\u2019s it!) and desperate enough to prove his innocence that he provided his tax returns to The Times and addressed every single claim against him.<\/p>\n<p>The only reasonable critic in this is Dr. Roger A. Pielke, Jr., who often makes good points about scientific integrity and is correct to say that the IPCC should have a conflict policy.<\/p>\n<p>Duly noted.<\/p>\n<p>But would such a policy preclude Pachauri from doing consulting that benefits his nonprofit Energy and Resources Institute and the charity Lighting a Billion Lives? Almost certainly not.<\/p>\n<p>As Hal Harvey of Climate Works notes, government panels in the U.S. tolerate conflicts of interest as long as they&#8217;re disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the problem here?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/KlqcjkN27Mo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajendra Pachauri: A man maligned The New York Times has waded back into the IPCC debate today, with a piece about Rajendra K. Pachauri that can be effectively summed up as \u201cwe\u2019re not saying he did anything wrong, we\u2019re just saying.\u201d One thing the article gets right: there have been an series of attacks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}