Angry in the Great White North

Let's watch Raj Pachauri squirm.  If the planet is warming, no one has noticed it (and apparently we're in a global warming pause).  It's the former railroad engineer who pretends to be the go-to guy on global warming as chair of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who is the only one feeling the heat right now.

The IPCC lies are being revealed at a rapid clip.  As a result, everyone wants to know when Pachauri is going to resign.  Thankfully for rational people, he is refusing to go!

'Himalayan' heat makes Pachauri sweat

R.K. Pachauri, the usually suave head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), looked flustered after a long time - with the booboo on the predicted demise of Himalayan glaciers high on everyone's mind.

While addressing the media on India's energy security, Pachauri must have known very well why the room was packed with reporters but refused to answer any questions on the Himalayan blunder.

The media held its patience for long. But an exasperated reporter finally shouted out: "How do you react to the demand for your resignation?" Pachauri refused to answer even that, but for the first time was seen to pull out his green handkerchief to wipe his brow.

He also had to be escorted out of the room so that he was not mobbed by reporters - something he has been known to love in the past!

Wiping his brow?  Feeling a bit warm under the collar there?

Of course he is.  He is about to be probed:

Media representatives from around the world arrived to ask questions on the Himalayan glacier goof-up that has seriously dented the credibility of IPCC. It has led to a number of allegations of financial impropriety against TERI and Pachauri as well, and the British government is reported to be planning a probe.

Probe?  Well, it seems like Pachauri personally profited from this:

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 pounds by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a 2.5m pound 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 Sunday Times has discovered that the same bogus claim has been cited in grant applications for 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.

I suppose the party will be over when an environmentalist calls for Pachauri to resign.  Oh wait, too late.  Geoffrey Lean, environmental reporter for the Daily Telegraph, is demanding that Pachauri leave:

It is time for the embattled Rajendra Pachauri to resign as Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), He is steadfastly refusing to go, but his position is becoming more and more untenable by the day, and the official climate science body will continue to leach credibility while he remains in charge.

When on Friday I wrote for my Daily Telegraph column (published yesterday) that he was "at best one more blunder away from having to resign", I did not expect other errors to come to light quite so fast. But, as I blogged yesterday, four more have now been reported from the part of the latest IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers that contained the notorious - and now withdrawn - claim that they would disappear by 2035. And there are now reports that it erred in relying on an unpublished report in linking natural disasters like flood and hurricanes to global warming. All appear much less serious than  the original Himalayan howler, but they add to  the impression of sloppiness at the IPCC.

In the face of this storm, Pachauri has said he won't resign:

Pachauri said the IPCC had a set of robust procedures designed to generate credible scientific assessments of climate change and these procedures would be followed in the preparation of the fifth assessment report due in 2014.

"I have no intention of resigning," Pachauri said, when asked if the glacier error would hurt the credibility of the IPCC. "I have a task to do ahead," he said, referring to the fifth assessment report.

Good for you, Pachauri.  I, for one, hope you stay on as head of the IPCC.  I hope you keep including bogus data in the IPCC reports, and then turn around and get grants for TERI based on those same reports.  Each time you do that, you dig yourself into a hole, and pull the whole global warming alarmist cabal deeper into the same hole.