+++ 3. Februar 2010 +++
Amazongate, Glaciergate: IPCC's Credibility in a Meltdown
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its Chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, are reeling from the blows. After the leak of emails showing how the East Anglia Climate Research Unit had “sexed up” its data on global warming, last week, the Panel had to deny statements published in 2007 on the alarming melting away of the Himalayan glaciers. Then on Jan. 25, it was revealed that their warning that 40% of the Amazon rainforest is in danger of disappearing due to global warming was unsubstantiated.
In the same 2007 report, and in the same Chapter 13 of the Working Group II containing the Himalayan fraud, the IPCC claimed that "up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation," such as global warming might cause, thus making it "more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems ... such as tropical savannas."
According to the UK-based blog, EUReferendum (Jan.25), the sole "documentation" cited for the "disappearing Amazon" scare story, is a report published in 2000 by Prince Philip's notorious WWF and IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), and written by a freelance reporter/activist and a coordinator of various WWF projects on forest fires in Australia and Africa. Not only are the two authors report not scientists, but, according to EUReferendum, that report nowhere asserts that that "40% of the Amazon forest" might disappear, as the IPCC report does!
Shortly after these revelations sped around the world, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri was caught in another lie. On Jan. 22, he told the Times of London that "I became aware of this [IPCC wrongful charge that Himalyan glaciers would be gone by 2035] when it was reported in the media about ten days ago. Before that, it was really not made known. Nobody brought it to my attention. There were statements, but we never looked at this 2035 number."
However, a prominent writer for the journal Science, Pallava Bagla, told the Times (Jan. 30) that he had confronted Dr. Pachauri with the 2035 error last November. And Dr. Pachauri had replied: "I don't have anything to add on glaciers."
On the same day, the Sunday Telegraph debunked a further claim of the UN climate change watchdog institute. The IPCC stated in its most recent report that mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was melting due to global warming, and citing two papers as the source of the information.
As it turns out, one of them was an article in a popular magazine for climbers, which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them. The other one was a thesis by a geography student at the University of Berne in Switzerland, in which he quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps. So much for science!
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