Inner City Press: UN's Ban Has No Comment on Himalayan Glacier Gaffe, Doesn't Rely on IPCC

Spokesperson: No, no, Matthew, the Secretary-General does not rest his case purely on the IPCC. There is an enormous body of evidence and information out there from various different sources, not just from the IPCC, however important that may be. And an error in one report does not undermine the entire science that is clearly proven.

So who apologized -- the IPCC's website? To have nothing to say about the various scandals surrounding the IPCC and Pachauri seems strange. It's why some say Ban is now shifted to rolling the dice on a trip to North Korea -- our next story, forthcoming.

Footnote: The UN's and Ban's climate unit under Janos Pasztor, which was told there was no room for it in the UN's Temporary North Lawn Conference Building where Ban has his office, is now looking at space in the Alcoa Building on 48th Street, Inner City Press is told. For now, they are left behind in the nearly empty UN skyscaper where asbestos removal has already begun. Meanwhile, Pachauri has wished asbestos on his critics...

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Hiddensee Helicopter Mission: Stranded Tourists Rescued from Ice-Bound Island - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

An ice-bound island in the Baltic Sea, isolated after Germany was hit by freezing weather, has been the focus of an extraordinary rescue mission.

Is it time for Climate Change: the Comic? | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

So I wonder: could a graphic novel do justice to the current controversy in climate science? As leaked emails and errors embarrass the science on which an entire politics is based, could a comic depict both the pathos of scientists driven by conviction to possibly suppress or distort data, and the larger picture that overwhelmingly demands urgent action to save the climate? Could it dramatise the motivations of sceptics and eco-warriors?