UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers

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The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.

It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.

The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 - an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report.

Since then, however, The Sunday Times has discovered that the same bogus claim has been cited in grant applications for TERI.

One of them, announced earlier this month just before the scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.

An abstract of the grant application published on Carnegie's website said: "The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate.

"One authoritative study reported that most of the glaciers in the region "will vanish within forty years as a result of global warming, resulting in widespread water shortages,"

The Carnegie money was specifically given to aid research into "the potential security and humanitarian impact on the region" as the glaciers began to disappear. Pachauri has since acknowledged that this threat, if it exists, will take centuries to have any serious effect.

The money was initially given to the Global Centre, an Icelandic Foundation which then channelled it, with Carnegie's involvement, to TERI.

The cash was acknowledged by TERI in a press release, issued on January 15, just before the glacier scandal became public, in which Pachauri repeated the claims of imminent glacial melt.

It said: ""According to predictions of scientific merit they may indeed melt away in several decades."

The same release also quoted Dr Syed Hasnain, the glaciologist who, back in 1999, made the now discredited claim that Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035.

He now heads Pachauri's glaciology unit at TERI which sought the grants and which is carrying out the glacier research.

Critics point out that Hasnain, of all people, should have known the claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 was bogus because he was meant to be a leading glaciologist specialising in the Himalayas.

Any suggestion that TERI has repeated an unchecked scientific claim without checking it, in order to win grants, could prove hugely embarrassing for Pachauri and the IPCC.

UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers - Times Online

 

[Oddball]

Wha....You mean the Great Climatic Googly-moogly is all about the money?!?!?

Well, I'll be dipped.

 

[Big Black Dog]

The UN lies about everything so they can get money from the US. About 3/4 of it will go into somebody's pocket and the remaining 1/4 will just be squandered away. Lying about anything to do with Mother Earth is a good bet because nobody has a clue as to what is really true and everybody that can get a hand in there is on the "Think Green" take. No surprise here.

 

[concept]

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American Thinker Blog: IPCC scientist admits Glaciergate was about influencing governments
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In a stunning admission, the scientist responsible for publishing the part of the 2007 IPCC report on global warming in Asia says he knew the evidence for the disappearing Himalayan Glacier was suspect but allowed it into the report in order to put pressure on governments to take action.

This story is getting huge play in Great Britain - not so much here in America. David Rose of the Daily Mail pens this piece:

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report's chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.'

Looks like the global warming chickens are coming home to roost.

 

[concept]

uhhhhhh who exactly are these "peers" that are supposed to review this garbage?

 

[concept]

There was no blunder.

This was deliberate.

 

[Oddball]

uhhhhhh who exactly are these "peers" that are supposed to review this garbage?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/1758997-post1.html

 

[Colin]

Half-truths and lies picked up by politicians and perpetuated by governments as a means to increase taxation in the name of green policies. What's new? Since when has any politician EVER told the truth about ANYTHING!

 

[concept]

Now it appears the "AGW will adversly affect the rainforest" claims are bogus as well.
After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate – Telegraph Blogs

Talk about having no credibility whatsoever.

It seems it was "peer reviewed" by a couple of hacks with zero experience on Amazon rain forests. But hey, don't let that stop you, libs. One was a jouno and green activist and the other was a policy analyst.
Some peers you got there.

 

[concept]

Blunder, my ass.

It's a deliberate snow job (sic) and it's all about money and power as usual.