U.S. Media Silent as Climate Scandals Continue by Dan Karipides/Wizbang
Published: January 30, 2010 - 11:16 AM The Times UK continues to report on the various climate change scandals. Today they reveal that IPCC chief Pachauri knew about the bogus Himalayan ice melt claims months before the Copenhagen summit but declined to reveal them.
Mr Bagla said he had informed Dr Pachauri that Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University and a leading glaciologist, had dismissed the 2035 date as being wrong by at least 300 years. Professor Cogley believed the IPCC had misread the date in a 1996 report which said the glaciers could melt significantly by 2350.
Mr Pallava interviewed Dr Pachauri again this week for Science and asked him why he had decided to overlook the error before the Copenhagen summit. In the taped interview, Mr Pallava asked: "I pointed it out [the error] to you in several e-mails, several discussions, yet you decided to overlook it. Was that so that you did not want to destabilise what was happening in Copenhagen?"
Pachauri maintains his innocence and claims that he never knew about the issue until after Copenhagen. It would be helpful if these emails or other proof could be made public to substantiate these claims...
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