UN climate geniuses scramble to blame others as more errors expected

Climate scientist says "many mistakes in" UN Nobel Prize winning report. Cites

• "might of the IPCC"

• in decision to remain silent:

"But Syed Hasnain, the Indian glaciologist erroneously quoted as making the 2035 prediction, said that responsibility had to lie with them.

• “It is the lead authors — blame goes to them,” he told The Times.

• “There are many mistakes in it. It is a very poorly made report.”

He and other leading glaciologists pointed out at least five glaring errors in the relevant section. ...

• An entire paragraph is also attributed to the World Wildlife Fund,

• when only one sentence came from it, and

the IPCC is not supposed to use such advocacy groups as sources.

• Professor Hasnain, who was not involved in drafting the IPCC report, said that he noticed some of the mistakes when he first read the relevant section in 2008.

That was also the year he joined The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in Delhi, which is headed by Dr Pachauri.

• He said he realised that the 2035 prediction was based on an interview he gave to the New Scientist magazine in 1999,

• although he blamed the journalist for assigning the actual date.

He said that he did not tell Dr Pachauri because he was not working for the IPCC and was busy with his own programmes at the time.

“I was keeping quiet as I was working here,” he said. “My job is not to point out mistakes. And

• you know the might of the IPCC.

• What about all the other glaciologists around the world
• who did not speak out?”

Dr Pachauri also said he did not learn about the mistakes

• until they were reported in the media about 10 days ago, ***(see BBC report below, 12/5/09)

at which time he contacted other IPCC members. He denied keeping quiet about the errors to avoid disrupting the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen,

• or discouraging funding for TERI’s own glacier programme.

But he too admitted that it was “really odd” that none of the world’s leading glaciologists had pointed out the mistakes to him earlier. “Frankly, it was a stupid error,” he said.

• “But no one brought it to my attention.”...

Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

• But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report,

• and said that he was considering whether to take action
• against those responsible."...

from TimesOnlineUK, "UN Climate Change Expert: there could be more errors in report," Jeremy Page, 1/23/10 ************

• ***BBC report 12/5/09 Pachauri informed about Himalaya mistakes:

"When asked how this "error" could have happened, RK Pachauri, the Indian scientist who heads the IPCC, said:

• "I don't have anything to add on glaciers."...and

Mr Pachauri dismissed the study as "voodoo science" and

• said the IPCC was a "sober body" whose work was

• verified by governments."...

BBC, "Himalayan Glaciers Melting Deadline a 'Mistake'," 12/5/09, by Pallava Bagla Sports Illustrated cover selling global warming using a baseball star, March 2007********

• Nuts..."that’s exactly what we’d be were we to surrender our
• freedoms, our economic growth,

• and even our simplest comforts to duplicitous zealots before checking

and double-checking the work of the prophets predicting our doom

• should we refuse."

Marc Sheppard, American Thinker, 1/22/10, "Climategate: CRU was but the tip of the iceberg" via WUWT

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