Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Glacial Fallout and the IPCC

The IPCC's error with respect to Himalayan glaciers has all of a sudden gained enormous traction. Here is a quick round up of the latest.

Just 6 per cent of top Conservative candidates give a stuff about 'reducing Britain's carbon footprint' – Telegraph Blogs

I think most of you will agree the result is quite amazingly encouraging.

Media ignores Himalayan glaciers melt correction | CLIMATEGATE

You won’t find the story on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, AP, New York Times, LA Times or any other major network. You need to go to more courageous papers in the UK and Australia, smaller conservative new sources, and of course blogs like this one.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Sorry, But This Stinks

Of course, neither Dr. Pachauri nor Dr. Hasnain ever said anything about the error when it was receiving worldwide attention (as being true) in 2007 and 2008, nor did they raise any issues with the IPCC citing non-peer reviewed work (which is a systemic problem). They did however use the IPCC and its false claims as justification in support of fund raising for their own home institution. At no point was any of this disclosed.

If the above facts and time line is correct (and I welcome any corrects to details that I may have in error), then what we have here is a classic and unambiguous case of financial conflict of interest. IPCC Chairman Pachauri was making public comments on a dispute involving factual claims by the IPCC at the same time that he was negotiating for funding to his home institution justified by those very same claims. If instead of climate science we were instead discussing scientific advisors on drug safety and funding from a pharmaceutical company to the advisory committee chair the conflict would be obvious.

Climate science desperately needs to clean up its act.