Climategate - Is This the Beginning of the End?

You'll all know by now the above is Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Also you're possibly aware the IPCC published a report which clearly stated the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. This has proved to be completely inaccurate and has been rubbished by many of the top climate change scientists.

Yet, in an interview, Pachauri said it would be hypocritical to apologise for the false claim regarding the Himalayas because he was not personally responsible for that part of the report.

The IPCC issued a statement that expressed regret for the mistake, but Pachauri said a personal apology would be a "populist" step. "I don't do many populist things, that's why I'm so unpopular with a certain section of society," he said.

If nothing else, we have to admire Pachauri's tenacity for hanging onto his job (or one of them), and his audacity. As the heid bummer surely he knows the buck stops at him or is has his arrogance overtaken his common sense?

We have heard little or nothing from other members of the IPCC board. I wonder why.

Elsewhere Professor Phil Jones, director of the CRU, is having his integrity questioned because the leaked emails suggest that he helped to cover up flows in temperature date from China that underpinned his research on the strength of recent global warming. Crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist. What data is available suggests that the findings are fundamentally flawed.

Not only are CRU climate change scientists being accused of censoring their critics by withholding information from the peer review system, but it has emerged that 14 leading researchers in a different field - stem cell research - have written an open letter to journal editors to highlight their dissatisfaction with the peer review process. They allege that a small scientific clique is using peer review to block papers from other researchers.

Climategate, as well as exposing the climate change science to be seriously flawed, may have opened a whole can of worms in other areas of scientific research. 'Bad science needs good scrutiny' - all science needs good scrutiny.

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Forget Big Oil the New World Power is Big Carbon

Al Gore, the man who invented carbon emissions. It wasn't so long ago Mr Gore and his Gorelets were telling us if we wanted to fly anywhere then we would have to buy carbon offsets, preferably from a Government Approved scheme. It was also suggested that we walk more often, use public transport instead of driving and turning down your thermostat at home. This obviously only applies to city folks because in rural areas public transport leaves a great deal to be desired and sensible people heat their homes to a temperature which ensure the occupiers are comfortable.

Now all this is unravelling. The air's out of the bag and the bag's deflating, yet Gore and his Gorelets are backing stiffer pan-globe governmental legislation on carbon emissions.

Picture courtesy of the Filthy Engineer

No wonder this man's smiling. He is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the part-time head of the IPCC.

Richard North continues his excellent research into Climategate and shows us what a tight-knit set-up the selling of air has become.

James Delingpole is one of the few journalists who has spoken out against climate change, particularly since the leak of the UEA emails and documents. His Telegraph article today also addresses the Big Carbon Scam Corus have used against the NE of England. It is a worthwhile read.

If anyone had said to me 20 years ago that the ultimate non-product of carbon trading would be the biggest scam of the 21st century I would have thought them mad. Yet it has happened. Just in European terms, the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and Bluenext accounted for 92% of exchange-traded EU carbon permits and so far in 2009, the value of the carbon permits traded through both exchanges is €86,304,050,227 or €364,547,223 a day.

The irony of it all is, as James Hansen admits, this money making 'business' will have no overall effect on emission levels, but it's not intended to. As Richard North states "This is a money-making scam on a colossal scale, a confidence trick perpetrated in plain sight, giving endless opportunities to rip off the public."

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