American Thinker Blog: Second Dispatch from the ICCC Climate Sanity Front

There were over half a hundred presentations made at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change today, and here are some quick picks from just a few of them.

Pachauri to lead new climate and energy institute at Yale varsity | Sindh Today

Washington, March 10 (IANS) Leading Indian climate change expert, Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), the premier US institution announced Tuesday.

“We are fortunate to attract one of the world’s foremost climate change experts to lead this ambitious new institute,” Yale University President Richard C. Levin said. “No one has a more comprehensive grasp of the science and policy of climate change or has done more to bring attention to this urgent issue.”

Pachauri, who has also chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, will retain both his current positions while taking up his new responsibilities at the New Haven, Connecticut, based university.

Jan '07: Prometheus: IPCC, Policy Neutrality, and Political Advocacy Archives

We have commented in the past here about how the leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has flouted its own guidance to be "policy neutral" by engaging in overt political advocacy on climate change.