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.
The IPCC has come under flak on three counts, the first of which is that due diligence was not followed and the claims were not peer-reviewed. Secondly, for the misleading authoritative tone in its predictions of the future, and lastly, for merely being the words of authors who are no experts… and this after Mr. Pachauri claimed that “IPCC procedures were robust and the world should have no doubt about the reality of climate change,” just a few days before leaving for Copenhagen. “The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, is now doomed. Not a word it or its Chairman says can any longer be taken seriously. The news that it is at last abandoning its entirely false claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas will disappear entirely by 2035 is one of the last nails in the coffin of this unlamented corpse,” cries Monkton.
While it might be too early to deny the reality of climate change and global warming, the recent spate of errors does not augur well for environmentalists battling to save an already over-burdened Earth. Besides, with a skeleton falling out of the IPCC closet every few days, one only wonders how many more are to follow. With climate change sceptics scoring points over ‘believers’ with such inconvenient frequency, the IPCC has some serious questions to answer, something it has so far failed to do convincingly...
Agreed, action has to come thick and fast if the humans are causing or accelerating climate change, but passing off unverified reports as gospel truth is an unpardonable act especially given the vast economic disparity faced by the world. Clearly, catastrophic predictions and prophesies emanating from half-baked truths can have far greater repercussions…
‘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.
The IPCC has come under flak on three counts, the first of which is that due diligence was not followed and the claims were not peer-reviewed. Secondly, for the misleading authoritative tone in its predictions of the future, and lastly, for merely being the words of authors who are no experts… and this after Mr. Pachauri claimed that “IPCC procedures were robust and the world should have no doubt about the reality of climate change,” just a few days before leaving for Copenhagen. “The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, is now doomed. Not a word it or its Chairman says can any longer be taken seriously. The news that it is at last abandoning its entirely false claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas will disappear entirely by 2035 is one of the last nails in the coffin of this unlamented corpse,” cries Monkton.
While it might be too early to deny the reality of climate change and global warming, the recent spate of errors does not augur well for environmentalists battling to save an already over-burdened Earth. Besides, with a skeleton falling out of the IPCC closet every few days, one only wonders how many more are to follow. With climate change sceptics scoring points over ‘believers’ with such inconvenient frequency, the IPCC has some serious questions to answer, something it has so far failed to do convincingly...
Agreed, action has to come thick and fast if the humans are causing or accelerating climate change, but passing off unverified reports as gospel truth is an unpardonable act especially given the vast economic disparity faced by the world. Clearly, catastrophic predictions and prophesies emanating from half-baked truths can have far greater repercussions…
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