Pachauri's IPCC didn't research Amazon climate change

Pachauri's IPCC didn't research Amazon climate change

NEW DELHI: A climategate and then a glaciergate and now an Amazongate. British media reports on errors made by R K Pachauri's Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change on the Amazon forests. ( Watch Video )
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An article in Britian's daily 'Telegraph' has made another damning case against Pachauri's IPCC on the effects of climate change on the Amazon.

The report suggests the IPCC did not research the claims themselves. It says the claims were lifted off a report done by the WWF, an advocacy group.

Amazongate follows an embarrassing IPCC admission of false predictions on the Himalayan glacier meltdown.

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Climategate: Who Benefits When the IPCC Lies?

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The truly scandalous part about this whole story becomes evident when we ask who benefits from these mistakes. The 2035 date got into the IPCC report, as Dr. Lal claims, because it gave the report more political impact. The 2035 date showed up pretty often, though, in TERI materials.

Like grant applications.

It was quoted in a presentation to the European Union; that presentation led to a grant of several million Euros. TERI got a big share. It showed up in a grant application to the Carnegie Corporation that turned into a $500,000 grant.

And it turns out that Dr. Hasnain had joined TERI in the meantime.

The usual defense of people like Dr. Pachauri is that they “aren’t getting rich” from their jobs as scientists. But that’s not the way it works. As the head of IPCC and TERI, Dr. Pachauri travels the world (first class, at that; UN organizations always send senior people first class) while maintaining residences in London and India.

Pachauri has a fairly amazing collection of other conflicts of interest as well.

As a board member of several large companies, he’s entitled to first class travel and five-star accommodations from them as well. Even if, as he claims, all the revenue and honoraria go to TERI instead of directly to himself, one can live pretty well on a Western-scale salary when your home is in India and your residences and travel are covered by your company.

One of the ongoing puzzles as we learn more about the inner workings of the climate cartel is to what extent the people involved are true believers, and to what extent they’re “merely” cynical manipulators

Not surprising,