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The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.
The study is the first to survey all the world's icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica – is much less then previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy.
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Where's Nobel Prize Winning, IPCC Head, Rajendra Pachauri, who said there would be no ice in 25 years? That paid-off, propaganda spewing, carbon scamming, globalist quack should be charged with intellectual fraud and thrown in jail with his con-man, Ponzi-scheming crony, Al Gore.The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas... more
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Michael Mann got a free pass today by Penn State, and many of us wondered, “who will be the fall guy.” Well, here you go: Rajendra Pachauri.
The Times online reports the story:
The head of the UN’s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has insisted that he will remain in post for another four years despite having failed to act on a serious error in the body’s 2007 report.
John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK , said that Dr Pachauri should have acted as soon as he had been informed of the error, even though issuing a correction would have embarrassed the IPCC on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit.
A journalist working for Science had told Dr Pachauri several times late last year that glaciologists had refuted the IPCC claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. Dr Pachauri refused to address the problem, saying: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.” He suggested that the error would not be corrected until 2013 or 2014, when the IPCC next reported.
Well, at least he can go to work for Geico.Michael Mann got a free pass today by Penn State, and many of us wondered, “who... more
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Green hypocrite Pachauri says critics apply asbestos to their faces
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ipcc-boss-unhinged-as-greenpeace-demands-resignation.html
With the pressure on IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri increasing as the head of Greenpeace calls for his resignation, one of the most notorious green con artists is showing signs of cracking up, comparing his critics to an imaginary group of people who like to rub asbestos on their faces.
Pachauri has become one of the primary targets following the Climategate revelations, and his reputation was further demolished last week when it was revealed that he is a total hypocrite when it comes to the “green” credentials he thinks everyone else should embrace.
For the one mile journey from his $7 million home to his Delhi office, Pachauri doesn’t walk, cycle, use public transport or hybrid low energy vehicles, he employs a driver to collect him in a a 1.8-litre Toyota Corolla.
“Dr Pachauri – who as IPCC chairman once told people to eat less meat to cut greenhouse gas emissions – was driven to an upmarket restaurant popular with expatriates and well-off tourists just half a mile from his luxurious family home,” reported the Daily Mail [2].
But it’s Pachauri’s involvement in what has been dubbed “Glaciergate” that has led to calls for his resignation, a mantra joined today by Greenpeace, whose director John Sauven said that Pachauri’s refusal to step down had tarnished the credibility of the IPCC.
“The IPCC needs to regain credibility. Is that going to happen with Pachauri [as chairman]? I don’t think so. We need someone held in high regard who has extremely good judgment and is seen by the global public as someone on their side,” said John Sauven [3].
Pressure increased on Pachauri after it was revealed that the IPCC’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 was based on a speculative whim and was not backed by any formal research. The notion that the glaciers could melt within 25 years has since been ridiculed.
Pachauri’s obstinate refusal to quit under the weight of condemnation from his own peers is seemingly having an effect on the former railway engineer’s mental stability.
Responding to his critics in a Financial Times interview, Pachauri says man-made global warming skeptics are “people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder”. Expanding on this ludicrous theme, Pachauri expressed his hope that such people “apply it to their faces every day”.
Accompanying his reactionary and immature way of handling criticism is Pachauri’s blind self-delusion that he has done no wrong.
“There is clearly a very obvious intent behind this whole thing. I’m certainly not going to be affected by it. I’m totally in the clear. I have absolutely nothing but indifference to what these people are doing,” Pachauri told the FT [5].
Unfortunately for him, Pachauri has obviously been abandoned by his fellow warmist colleagues who are hopeful that by offering him up as a sacrificial lamb, the engine of their climate change con can still be saved from the raging inferno of Climategate and the innumerable scandals which have followed.Green hypocrite Pachauri says critics apply asbestos to their faces... more
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The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 - an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report.
One of them, announced earlier this month just before the scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.
An abstract of the grant application published on Carnegie's website said: "The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate.
"One authoritative study reported that most of the glaciers in the region "will vanish within forty years as a result of global warming, resulting in widespread water shortages,"
The Carnegie money was specifically given to aid research into "the potential security and humanitarian impact on the region" as the glaciers began to disappear. Pachauri has since acknowledged that this threat, if it exists, will take centuries to have any serious effect.
The money was initially given to the Global Centre, an Icelandic Foundation which then channelled it, with Carnegie's involvement, to TERI.
The cash was acknowledged by TERI in a press release, issued on January 15, just before the glacier scandal became public, in which Pachauri repeated the claims of imminent glacial melt.
It said: ""According to predictions of scientific merit they may indeed melt away in several decades."
The same release also quoted Dr Syed Hasnain, the glaciologist who, back in 1999, made the now discredited claim that Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035.
He now heads Pachauri's glaciology unit at TERI which sought the grants and which is carrying out the glacier research.
Critics point out that Hasnain, of all people, should have known the claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 was bogus because he was meant to be a leading glaciologist specialising in the Himalayas.
Any suggestion that TERI has repeated an unchecked scientific claim without checking it, in order to win grants, could prove hugely embarrassing for Pachauri and the IPCC.
The second grant, from the EU, totalled £2.5m and was designed to "to assess the impact of Himalayan glaciers retreat".
It was part of the EU's HighNoon project, launched last May to fund research into how India might adapt to loss of glaciers.
In one presentation at last May's launch, Anastasios Kentarchos, of the European Commission's Climate Change and Environmental Risks Unit, specifically cited the bogus IPCC claims about glacier melt as a reason for pouring EU taxpayers' money into the project...
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LONDON (AFP) — People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, a top United Nations expert told a British Sunday newspaper.
Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told The Observer that people should start by having one meat-free day per week then cut back further.
The 68-year-old Indian economist, who is a vegetarian, said diet change was important in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental problems associated with rearing cattle and other animals.
"Give up meat for one day (per week) initially, and decrease it from there," he said.
"In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity."
Other small-scale lifestyle changes would also help to combat climate change, he said without elaborating.
"That's what I want to emphasise: we really have to bring about reductions in every sector of the economy."
Pachauri is due to give a speech in London on Monday under the title: "Global Warning: the impact of meat production and consumption on climate change".
Pachauri, who was re-elected for a second term six-year term as IPCC chairman last week, has headed the organisation since 2002 and oversaw its seminal assessment report in 2007 which gave graphic forecasts of the risks posed by global warming.
(more at link)LONDON (AFP) — People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat... more
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Gore, Pachauri, Glick, Nobel prize and climate change-2/6
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Gore, Pachauri, Glick, Nobel prize and climate change-1/6
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Oh yes. Watch Mr. Gore slap down this interrogator... uh, I mean interviewer.
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Nobel Laureate Pachauri is on the same page as Al Gore, although he is not getting nearly as much heat from the Right as Al Gore is regarding the science of this. Why is that? To me that proves it is just a coordinated politically motivated attack that holds no credibility. And Mr. Pachauri is correct. Cities and states in the U.S. have led the way in addressing the climate crisis and I believe that will be the answer to seeing real progress made regarding solutions. It is simply good common sense regardless of what you believe regarding climate change to address the rapacious lifestyles we now have and the effect that is having upon this planet. Of course, those in the employ of those interests that see losing profits from this awkening are trying their best to keep that truth from being seen... I say, you are too late.Nobel Laureate Pachauri is on the same page as Al Gore, although he is not getting... more
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I agree with Mr. Gore when he states that both the U.S. and China must stop using the other's nonaction as an excuse for their own. It is childish and it is now dangerous. And once again I have to state how proud I am to see Mr. Gore accepting this honor along with Mr.Pachauri, whose words were also stark and truthful. Now the question is, will they be heeded?I agree with Mr. Gore when he states that both the U.S. and China must stop using the... more
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