Having made to beat a hasty retreat on its stand on ‘retreating glaciers’, the IPCC might have lost more than just credibility!
‘Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes truth’ seems to have been the motto of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change or the IPCC and its Chairman R K Pachauri who is finding himself on a sticky wicket in the wake of the ‘Glaciergate’ scandal. But come as they may, the lies have become far too many to be kept under wraps… the can of worms is open and the count of worms hasn’t stopped... not just yet.
There seems to be no end in sight to IPCC and its Chairman, R K Pachauri’s woes. First, it was a series of leaked e-mails that set-off a wave of doubt about the extent and the rate of global warming, then it was the outlandish claim (based on mere speculation) that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; and now there’s yet another damning case built by Britain’s daily, Telegraph against the Nobel award-winning body that seems to have shot itself in the foot yet again by claiming that ice from world’s mountain tops was disappearing due to global warming, a claim based on a university student’s thesis and an article published in a popular magazine for climbers...
With the IPCC adding one goof-up after another to its cap, the UN body would need something of a miracle to salvage its credibility, what with another of its claims about the effects of climate change on the Amazon having come from a lifted report appearing in the WWF – an advocacy group. “As if this were not bad enough, the IPCC has now had to admit to 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,” says Lord Christopher Monkton, a staunch critic of the IPCC and the theory of man-induced global warming.
‘Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes truth’ seems to have been the motto of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change or the IPCC and its Chairman R K Pachauri who is finding himself on a sticky wicket in the wake of the ‘Glaciergate’ scandal. But come as they may, the lies have become far too many to be kept under wraps… the can of worms is open and the count of worms hasn’t stopped... not just yet.
There seems to be no end in sight to IPCC and its Chairman, R K Pachauri’s woes. First, it was a series of leaked e-mails that set-off a wave of doubt about the extent and the rate of global warming, then it was the outlandish claim (based on mere speculation) that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; and now there’s yet another damning case built by Britain’s daily, Telegraph against the Nobel award-winning body that seems to have shot itself in the foot yet again by claiming that ice from world’s mountain tops was disappearing due to global warming, a claim based on a university student’s thesis and an article published in a popular magazine for climbers...
With the IPCC adding one goof-up after another to its cap, the UN body would need something of a miracle to salvage its credibility, what with another of its claims about the effects of climate change on the Amazon having come from a lifted report appearing in the WWF – an advocacy group. “As if this were not bad enough, the IPCC has now had to admit to 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,” says Lord Christopher Monkton, a staunch critic of the IPCC and the theory of man-induced global warming.
Read these article :-
Outlook Magazine money editor quits
Don't trust the Indian Media!
No comments:
Post a Comment