The whole thing is falling apart rapidly, now:
The London Times continues to follow the glaciergate story–and it keeps getting worse.
The latest disclosure: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s (formerly) prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (known as the IPCC), may have raised millions of dollars for his New Delhi institute on the basis of the totally bogus ‘glaciergate’ claim by the IPCC that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.
According the the London Times, Pachauri’s institute got money from the European Union and the US-based Carnegie Corporation to investigate a prediction that never had any scientific backing whatever, and one which all serious glacier scientists instantly recognized as impossible. The bogus claim was frequently repeated in the fundraising efforts — and reiterated as recently as January 15 when the IPCC was already under intense pressure to admit it had blundered.
This is now more than an example of eye-popping incompetence and gross neglect of elementary scientific standards by a body on whose authority the world is expected to make multi-trillion dollar decisions affecting every business and every person on the planet.
It is now, potentially, a criminal issue.
It certainly is – and we need to start investigating, from Gore on down, for possible fraud. These people have been running a confidence game…maybe they didn’t start out, and maybe some of them were bamboozled in to it, but we need to know. And those who knew it was false from the start and/or became aware of its falsehood and failed to expose it, need to go to jail.
How much money have we spent on this scam? Money which could have been used for other, much better purposes? If it can be shown that people died for lack of support because money was diverted to the bogus claims of global warming, then we might have manslaughter cases to make against the hucksters.
Just burns me up that they got away with it for so long – and are still trying to defend their fantasy, at least long enough to rake in some more billions of dollars. This must be stopped and the guilty must be made an example of in order to keep people honest on these issues in the future.
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