So I was not surprised when the IPCC, after doing its best to maintain its fictitious baseless forecast about the Himalayan glaciers for several years, was eventually constrained to abandon it.
This was another profoundly humiliating loss of face for an organisation that is looking more than a little threadbare after the news that its Chairman, Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, a railroad engineer, is under investigation by the Charity Commission in UK in his capacity as a trustee (together with the former IPCC chairman, Sir John Houghton) of a charity that had declared income of less than 10,000 sterling in each of the past three years when in fact its income had been in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. False accounting is a serious, imprisonable offence in the United Kingdom.
A few weeks ago, in Copenhagen, I had confronted Dr Pachauri after his lecture on the work of the IPCC whence he had used a bogus graph that had appeared thrice in full colour in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report produced by the IPCC. The graph purported to show, but did not show, that the rate of warming had increased in recent years because of global warming.
I had warned Dr Pachauri that he had 48 hours to withdraw the graph or I should report him for fraud. He did not reply by the deadline, and will now perhaps have good reason to regret that he did not attend to my request in a scientific and timely fashion.
As if this were not bad enough, the IPCC has now had to admit yet another serious error. For years it has been trying to maintain that if the world warms again (and it has not done so for 15 years) hurricanes, floods and droughts would become more frequent. Now it has admitted that this is not the case, and it proposes to “re-evaluate the evidence”.
This was another profoundly humiliating loss of face for an organisation that is looking more than a little threadbare after the news that its Chairman, Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, a railroad engineer, is under investigation by the Charity Commission in UK in his capacity as a trustee (together with the former IPCC chairman, Sir John Houghton) of a charity that had declared income of less than 10,000 sterling in each of the past three years when in fact its income had been in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. False accounting is a serious, imprisonable offence in the United Kingdom.
A few weeks ago, in Copenhagen, I had confronted Dr Pachauri after his lecture on the work of the IPCC whence he had used a bogus graph that had appeared thrice in full colour in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report produced by the IPCC. The graph purported to show, but did not show, that the rate of warming had increased in recent years because of global warming.
I had warned Dr Pachauri that he had 48 hours to withdraw the graph or I should report him for fraud. He did not reply by the deadline, and will now perhaps have good reason to regret that he did not attend to my request in a scientific and timely fashion.
As if this were not bad enough, the IPCC has now had to admit yet another serious error. For years it has been trying to maintain that if the world warms again (and it has not done so for 15 years) hurricanes, floods and droughts would become more frequent. Now it has admitted that this is not the case, and it proposes to “re-evaluate the evidence”.
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