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IPCC Will Not be Influenced by New Papers – Pachauri Should Resign
According to The Guardian, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri has stated that the IPCC will not be influenced by new research. In a remarkable response to leading climate alarmist James Hansen’s claim that the lPCC AR4 report is two years out of date, Pachauri is reported to have said that this is “not a valid position.” “What the IPCC produces is not based on two years of literature, but 30 or 40 years of literature. We’re not dealing with short-term weather changes, we’re talking about major changes in our climate system. I refuse to accept that a few papers are in any way going to influence the long-term projections the IPCC has come up with.”
Why then are we spending so much money on climate research? Despite being a relatively young science, and the fact that we are a long way short of fully understanding the climate system, particularly the influence of solar factors, the head of the IPCC has decided that the ‘science is settled.’ Apparently man can predictably manipulate both atmospheric CO2 and the climate.
Of course, climate alarmists and climate realists will disagree with Pachauri for different reasons – alarmists because they believe new research will show the ‘problem’ is worse than we thought, realists because a fuller understanding of the climate system will demonstrate that the ‘enhanced greenhouse’ effect is small or insignificant, with strong negative feedbacks rather than Hansen’s ‘all feedbacks are positive’ claim. Furthermore, objective climate policy analysts will point out that the true scale of the task and costs of ‘decarbonisation’ are currently drastically underestimated by the IPCC.
Climate Research News will continue to publicise new research and policy analysis that Pachauri wants the IPCC to ignore. The science or the policy isn’t settled, but Pachauri’s fate should be – he must resign from the IPCC in order to allow someone who is better qualified and genuinely objective to take over.
H/T to Prometheus.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Energy rationing, why don’t they just say it.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Yet more proof of a political agenda.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:37 am
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January 12th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Pachauri is a disgrace! He should indeed be forced to resign as his attitude is a negation of the principles of all scientific research which require the objective examination and testing of new theories and experimental work in order to make progress. Pachauri’s statement simply confirms that the IPCC is driven by politicians and not scientists.