Where is the American media? The global warming hysteria infrastructure is collapsing, and mostly we get silence. But the UK press are acting like journalists–even though most papers editorially support radical efforts to fight supposed AGW.
Now, the Telegraph reports that India is on the verge of leaving the IPCC. From the story:
India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it “cannot rely” on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri. The Indian government’s move is a snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear…
Mr Ramesh effectively marginalised the IPC chairman even further. He announced that the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s “third ice cap”, and an “Indian IPCC” to use “climate science” to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country. “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report … [the] IPCC doesn’t do the original research which is one of the weaknesses … they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks. I respect the IPCC but India is a very large country and cannot depend only on [the] IPCC and so we have launched the Indian Network on Comprehensive Climate Change Assessment (INCCA),” he said
What a debacle. From undeserved Nobel Peace Prize to international punching bag. Time to pull the plug on the IPCC and start anew with a thorough house cleaning.
February 4th, 2010 | 5:25 pm
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February 4th, 2010 | 6:33 pm
“As chief operating officer for the cabal of Billionaires who control the global warming scam, Hitler quickly realizes the long range implications of “Glaciergate”.”
http://climaterealists.com/?id=4960
(a video spoof of climate science)
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
These “Hitler” videos are funny. They have cut against Sarah Palin, the Democrats in MA, and other issues.
February 4th, 2010 | 6:46 pm
The IPCC is not peer-reviewed science. It belongs with the bible and other works of mythology – recycle them and use the paper for science journals and textbooks.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Then why should we abide by anything they say, David? We shouldn’t. And we shouldn’t dismantle our economies chasing phantoms.
February 4th, 2010 | 6:58 pm
Before anyone embraces ignorance regarding the Himalayan glaciers, they ought to read the article:
http://etienne.berthier.free.fr/download/Berthier_et_al_RSE_2007.pdf
Smith, tell me, are the Himalayan glaciers melting… or are they not? Why or why not?
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Some are slowly shrinking, a few are growing David. We have had a warming trend in the last few decades. Not the first time, nor the last. But that is no reason to engage in hysteria.
February 5th, 2010 | 9:44 am
For those who like the videos, I encourage you to see the original German movie, “Downfall”, they’re taken from. While hardly uplifting, it is excellent.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 11:12 am
I agree SparkVark. It was a tour de force for the actor playing Hitler and, as far as I can tell, historically accurate. The scenes that really stick in my mind are Hitler utterly concentrated as his doctor instructs him on how to kill himself, and the Goebbels killing their children.
February 5th, 2010 | 11:22 pm
Didn’t the study in question actually say the glacier would be a gonner in 2350? When a typo gets reported as a fact, you have to shake your head.
If the Indians continue with Pachauri maybe the Nobel people will take away his prize. He and Al Gore made fools out them. Oh,be still my heast – that’d mean his partner in crime wouuld get his taken away, too. Can Oscar removal be far behind? Yes!!!
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