Pachauri vs Pachauri: Raging debate on ClimateGate

Climate chief dismisses e-mail outrage - CNN.com

# Climate chief says controversial e-mails were friends, colleagues "letting off steam"
# Leaked or stolen e-mails allegedly suggest that scientists manipulated climate data
# Pachauri says "certainly would" use data from East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit
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Pachauri told CNN there was no way that unreliable climate data could have made its way into the IPCC report.

"There are so many checks and balances in the processes and procedures that we follow at the IPCC, there is not one iota of possibility that something like this would happen," he said.

Climategate: UN panel on climate change to investigate claims - Telegraph

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), told BBC Radio 4's The Report programme the claims were serious and he wanted them investigated.

''We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it,'' he said.

Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts - Chez Goodman

You can't tell me that cowboys, when they're branding cattle, don't sort of "accidentally" brand each other every once in a while. It's their way of letting off stress.