Climate Chief Knew Glacier Data was Bogus Months Before Copenhagen

The glaciers aren’t really melting. And the climate chief knew it. Yet he wanted people to go on believing the glacier are melting, and melting fast.

Times Online: Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.

Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error for a few days. He said: “I became aware of this 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.”

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However, a prominent science journalist said that he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error last November. Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the error. He said that Dr Pachauri had replied: “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.”

The Himalayan glaciers are so thick and at such high altitude that most glaciologists believe they would take several hundred years to melt at the present rate. Some are growing and many show little sign of change.

Dr Pachauri had previously dismissed a report by the Indian Government which said that glaciers might not be melting as much as had been feared. He described the report, which did not mention the 2035 error, as “voodoo science”. …

Voodoo science is the junk being pushed by the IPCC. Not only did the IPCC know about the bogus glacier claims, they also fudged the numbers on rain forest data.

Not that the truth has any bearing on the decions by Dear Leader. In fact, Obama just issued rules for reducing greenhouse emissions by 28%! What’s that going to do to our already fragile economy?

Update: Related: Even though the Climate Gate scientists broke the law, they won’t be prosecuted due to a legal loophole. Figures.

Via memeorandum