https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/20/follow-the-money-ipccagw-edition/

It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri's links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world's leading 'climate official' can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC's recommendations. … These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in 'carbon trading' and 'sustainable technologies', which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year. … What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations…

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/02/15/ipcc-warnings-about-african-crops-also-bogus/

Not only did Pachauri's version again give prominence to Agoumi's 50 per cent figure, but he himself has repeated the claim on numerous occasions since, in articles, interviews and speeches –such as the one he gave to a climate summit in Potsdam last September, where he boasted he was speaking "in the voice of the world's scientific community". … Yet when it came to the impact on Africa, all this peer-reviewed work – including further expert reports by Britain's Dr Mike Hulme and Dutch and German teams – was ignored in favour of a prediction from one Moroccan activist at odds with his own cited sources. … What made this even odder, however, was that the group's co-chairman was a British agricultural expert, Dr Martin Parry, whose consultancy group, Martin Parry Associates, had been paid £75,000 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for two reports which had come to totally different conclusions…

https://hotair.com/archives/karl/2010/02/01/ipcc-chairman-writes-a-racy-novel/

Someone might want to ask how many trees are being killed for Dr. Pachauri's trashy novel -- and whether he bought a carbon offset, even if the money ends up going from the doctor's right pocket to his left. … Indeed, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) -- a Delhi-based company of which Dr Pachauri is director-general -- took in research money related to the unfounded claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. … The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India, where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians has "endangered the fragile ecosystem"…

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/02/04/greenpeace-uk-head-says-pachauri-needs-to-go/

The CRU e-mails show scientists trying to hide this decline, to give one detail—I don't have room in this column to detail the extent of CRU's shenanigans, nor could I tell the story as well as others, so please read this "Editor's Page" online for links (see below). … Because of manmade global warming, I warned in 1996, that "sea levels could rise as much as three feet by the year 2100 … warming can lead to hotter and more frequent heat waves … stronger and more frequent hurricanes to Hawai'i … endanger native plants species [and] coral reefs. … Ever since the revelation that the IPCC presented advocacy speculation as "settled science" on Himalayan glaciers and Amazon rainforests, and then hid the errors, AGW skeptics have been demanding the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who runs the UN body…

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/04/2...nother-exposed-doomsday-mistake-to-ipccs-failures/

"Sediments have been shaping Bangladesh's coast for thousands of years," said Maminul Haque Sarker, director of the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), who led research for the study. … But IPCC's prediction did not take into account the one billion tonnes of sediment carried by Himalayan rivers into Bangladesh every year, which are crucial in countering rises in sea levels, the study funded by the Asian Development Bank said. … The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17 percent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050…

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/02/07/even-more-problems-found-in-ipcc-report-on-agw/

Estimates of carbon-dioxide emissions from nuclear power stations and claims that suggested they were cheaper than coal or gas power stations were also taken from the website of the World Nuclear Association, rather than using independent scientific calculations. … One unpublished dissertation was used to support the claim that sea-level rise could impact on people living in the Nile delta and other African coastal areas, although the main focus of the thesis, by a student at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, appears to have been the impact of computer software on environmental development. … Almost immediately after that scandal, the claim that anthropogenic global warming could kill off 40% of the rainforest was exposed as an unsubstantiated claim from the World Wildlife Fund, postulated by two activists, neither of whom were climate scientists…

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/11/1.../hottest-october-on-record-was-really-a-september/

Another of his close allies is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who recently startled a university audience in Australia by claiming that global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever, in front of a graph showing them rising sharply in the past decade. … This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others. … This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year…