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| UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers |
| 2010-01-24 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #3 And your little dog too....: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19306 |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-01-24 19:53 |
#2 The Daily Mail put it much more clearly: 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. Or as Watt's Ups says, the science is scuttled. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-24 09:51 |
| #1 The Fraud Bill, which aims to reform the existing statutory offences of deception, was introduced in the House of Lords in May 2005. The Fraud Bill defines a general offence of fraud, with a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, as consisting of: fraud by false representation fraud by failing to disclose information fraud by abuse of position It also revises offence of obtaining services dishonestly (to fill a legal loophole, since a machine cannot be 'deceived') with a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment, and builds on the existing 'going equipped' offence so far as it relates to fraud, to criminalise the act of possessing or making material for use in frauds. The Bill will also extend the scope of the existing offence of fraudulent trading. |
| Posted by: Chusoling Scourge of the Geats5019 2010-01-24 08:44 |