UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report

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The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.

“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”

But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.

The IPCC admitted on Thursday that the prediction was “poorly substantiated” in the latest of a series of blows to the panel’s credibility.

Dr Pachauri said that the IPCC’s report was the responsibility of the panel’s Co-Chairs at the time, both of whom have since moved on.

They were Dr Martin Parry, a British scientist now at Imperial College London, and Dr Osvaldo Canziani , an Argentine meteorologist. Neither was immediately available for comment.

“I don’t want to blame them, but typically the working group reports are managed by the Co-Chairs,” Dr Pachauri said. “Of course the Chair is there to facilitate things, but we have substantial amounts of delegation.”

He declined to blame the 25 authors and editors of the erroneous part of the report , who included a Filipino, a Mongolian, a Malaysian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Australian and two Vietnamese.

The “co-ordinating lead authors” were Rex Victor Cruz of the Philippines, Hideo Harasawa of Japan, Murari Lal of India and Wu Shaohong of China.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/envi...icle6999051.ece

[Ban Hammer 13,909]

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Fire up them charcoal grills! WOOT!

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Don't tell Steven.

[Danno 1,228]

I suspect he is waiting to hang someone out to dry until he sees what the fallout is.

Or...

It could possibly be this community has a -wink and nod- understanding with each other to "do what they can to bolster the evidence".

For what other reason does one take his sweet time (weeks) to decide whether to fire someone.... i mean Jeez the planet is dying right? And his people outright falsified or at best were sloppy in gathering research which the whole world depends.

And he doesn't want to react to hastily?

Come'on

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The guy should resign because global warming was fixed by Al Gore's movie and we no longer need him! His job is done, take a bow and get off the stage.