Disgraceful: A UN scientist has admitted he included the nonsense about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035–even though he knew it had not been scientifically verified–to put political pressure on regional government leaders. From the story:
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.’
Not only was that politics instead of science, it was a clear violation of the IPCC’s mandate:
According to the IPCC’s statement of principles, its role is ‘to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis, scientific, technical and socio-economic information – IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy’.
It is becoming almost impossible now to call these accumulating messes “isolated incidents” or “mere mistakes.” Rather, they reflect a systemic abuse and politicization of the process that seems rife within the top echelons of the global warming-believing scientific establishment.
What is ironic here–and in other matters that touch on science covered at SHS, such as embryonic stem cell research and human cloning (the Hwang cloning fraud, etc.) –is that science isn’t being undermined by “religion” or “deniers” or “creationists,” but supposed scientists. The time has come for heads to roll.
January 24th, 2010 | 9:38 pm
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January 24th, 2010 | 10:07 pm
“…science isn’t being undermined by “religion” or “deniers” or “creationists,” but supposed scientists.”
Why?
Skewed worldviews, politics, personal agendas, for gain and/or prestige,acceptance.
January 25th, 2010 | 9:02 am
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January 25th, 2010 | 9:09 am
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January 25th, 2010 | 1:16 pm
After a week of columns in The London Times, The Daily Mail documenting the fraud – even one by by a supporter of AGW (Sloppy science is seeping into climate watchdog) what did my local newspapr,The Greenville News choose to go with on the front page? A story about Mark Sanford’s finances! Most recent story on climate change? Jan 20′s AP story by Borenstain! Oops, forgot about a Letter to the Editor on Jan.17 defending the CRU fraud.
When The London Times has headlines such as: World Misled Over Himalyan Glacier (1-17); UN Climate Chief ‘got grants through bogus claims.’; UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report (1-23); UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters (1-24) you know this is a major story.
The Daily Mail and The Telegraph have been writing stories about it as well. Which means that a local reporter could and should have been able to write a summary of the week’s events for its readers, right?
Meanwhile, a local community is desperately worried about losing the ability to attract manufacturing because of goofy EPA air quality rules – rules based, in part, on IPCC junk science.
I’m cancelling my subscription in protest. If your local newspaper hasn’t been following the story, you should cancel and tell them why.
January 25th, 2010 | 1:39 pm
It is a lesson long known – intellectual integrity is subservient to moral integrity. Smarts do not make up for dishonesty, or lying, or cheating. (Except maybe in the modern university? Or the U.N.?)
On the other hand, if you are really smart, or only slightly wise, you do not need to lie, cheat, etc.
January 27th, 2010 | 3:01 am
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January 27th, 2010 | 6:40 pm
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January 29th, 2010 | 8:17 pm
[...] the IPCC Report present the false claim to the world as a way of pressuring political leaders–discussed already here at SHS–but it now turns out that the chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, apparently knew about [...]
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