'No one expects China or India to become carbon neutral' - Interviews - Opinion - Home - The Times of India

Norway has stolen a march over other developed countries by declaring that it would reduce 40% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and become carbon neutral by 2030. Its 49 year-old prime minister Jens Stoltenberg , in India for the Delhi Sustainability Development Summit, assures that Norway will do everything possible to make this happen.
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[Q] R K Pachauri needn’t quit as chairman of IPCC?
[A] No. When you have thousands of pages of documentation of scientific work, it shouldn’t surprise us that there are some mistakes and some grounds for criticism, and we should welcome the scrutiny and criticism.
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[Q] You are the third largest exporter of fossil fuel. Will you cut back production?

[A] Oil and gas are a substantial part of our total emissions, but we are trying to deal with this. We are investing $1 billion in a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, injecting methane from oil fields 1,000 metres into the continental shelf sea bed.

Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility - Times Online

A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

March 2008: IPCC head Pachauri's continued ridiculous alarmism

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"...By 2020 there will be a 50 per cent reduction of agriculture in Africa effecting their people's survival", Pachauri said.

The leak was bad. Then came the death threats - Times Online

PHOTOGRAPHS of Professor Phil Jones show a handsome, smiling, confident-looking man. Not chubby exactly, but in blooming good health. The man who meets me at the University of East Anglia (UEA) looks grey-skinned and gaunt, as if he has been kept in prison.

In a way, he has. Since November last year he has been a prisoner of public opprobrium and a target of such vilification that was he was almost persuaded to comply with the wishes of those who wanted him dead.
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“I did think about it, yes. About suicide. I thought about it several times, but I think I’ve got past that stage now.” With the support of his family, and particularly the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, he began to look forward again. He is still unwell, getting through the day on beta-blockers and the night on sleeping pills, and he has lost a stone in weight. But at last there is optimism.